Kizza Besigye is a Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate who has challenged Yoweri Museveni at the ballot box since 2001. Since 2011 he has been trying to provoke an Arab spring-style uprising.
In late 2024 Mr Besigye was kidnapped while visiting Kenya and unlawfully rendered to a military jail in Uganda, where he stands accused of plotting to overthrow the government. The rendition required "a high level of co-ordination" between the two countries' security agencies, according to Amnesty International. Kenya admitted it co-operated, saying his treatment may have been "different" had he claimed asylum. He was locked up ahead of the 2026 election; his wife says he is seriously ill and being denied adequate care.
We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible. We've done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do something with nothing.