KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan security forces re-arrested a veteran opposition politician on Tuesday and broke up a protest in the capital that he was leading against soaring consumer prices.
Kizza Besigye, 66, who has been detained dozens of times and lost four elections to long-serving President Yoweri Museveni, had somehow slipped out of home arrest to address a swelling crowd in downtown Kampala when police detained him.
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