Uganda opposition leader injured as police disperse rally

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was slightly injured on Tuesday after police fired teargas to disperse his supporters at a political rally calling for demonstrations against President Yoweri Museveni's government, a party official said.

Fragments from an exploded device caused slight burns on his left leg at the rally held in the capital. "The explosion released some fragments which tore through Besigye's trouser and caused slight burns on his left leg," Anne Mugisha, a senior official for the main opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), told Reuters. "He visited a clinic and his wounds were dressed and he went home," she said. Since Museveni, in power for 25 years, won a presidential vote in February last year, Besigye, leader of the FDC, has led a series of often violent protests against high food and fuel prices in the east African country. (Reuters)