A Ugandan official says a prominent opposition figure facing military trial will be charged before a civilian court instead

Detained Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye, on hunger strike for a week, has been returned to prison after being in a clinic overnight, his allies have said. The 68-year-old was rushed to a private medical facility in a prison ambulance as his his health was deteriorating,

Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was briefly hospitalised after his health deteriorated following a hunger strike but was back in prison. He was abducted in Kenya in November and has been facing the death penalty on treason charges in a court martial that his wife,