Uganda lawyers protest

KAMPALA (AP): Some 300 lawyers gathered in Uganda’s capital on Wednesday to protest the arrest of the country’s top opposition leader and a crackdown on demonstrations, chanting: “We want a change in the regime.” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for a quarter-century, has vowed repeatedly that his government will not be taken down by protests. U.N.
officials have said demonstrations over the last three weeks in Uganda have left eight people dead and wounded more than 250 others. The protests have been the first serious unrest in sub-Saharan Africa since a wave of anti-government protests swept longtime leaders in Tunisia and Egypt out of power. On Wednesday, lawyers gathered outside the high court in Uganda’s capital and demanded the resignation of security officials involved in opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s arrest last week.