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Uganda's Kizza Besigye - veteran opposition leader profiled

Kizza Besigye used to be President Yoweri Museveni's personal doctor but he went on to become an opposition leader and has referred to Uganda's leader as a "dictator".

Mr Besigye is running against Mr Museveni in the presidential elections for the fourth time, after losing his previous three attempts.

He promised in an interview with Uganda's Daily Monitor paper in 2013, external that he would not run again but would use other means "to dismantle the dictatorship".

A year later he was still insistent that he would not run, telling Uganda's Observer newspaper, external that it is impossible to win an election that is being controlled by Mr Museveni.

But in 2015, he changed his mind.

His campaign rallies for the 2016 election have been characterised by supporters handing over donations, including bunches of bananas and live goats - a stark contrast to most campaign rallies on the continent, which see the candidates distributing gifts hoping to secure the votes of the be

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Profile: Kizza Besigye

Besigye fell out with Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, when he started criticising his government [Reuters]

A little more than a decade ago Kizza Besigye was fondly called the “hammer” by many of his supporters.

Uganda’s leading opposition figure earned the nickname after he traversed the country on the campaign trail in 2001, saying his opponent was a bit like a cotter pin and that disloding him from office would require a candidate with the strength of a hammer.

He said he would “hit” and remove Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for the past 25 years and won re-election for a new five-year term in the February 18 election. The opposition labelled that vote a sham.

Besigye, 56, was Museveni’s personal physician in the early 1980s when Museveni waged a five-year guerrilla campaign against the government of Milton Obote, the country’s independence leader who died in a South African clinic in 2005, after spending 19 years exiled in Zambia.

Besigye himself took part in the armed rebellion and served in the government as a junior minis

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Kizza Besigye

Ugandan politician

"Besigye" redirects here. For the Ugandan-born Norwegian author, see Bertrand Besigye.

Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (; born 22 April 1956), commonly known by his nickname Colonel Dr. Kizza Besigye, is a Ugandan physician, politician, and former military officer. He served as the president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party and was an unsuccessful candidate in Uganda's 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 presidential elections, losing all of them to the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, who has been president of Uganda since 26 January 1986. The results of the 2006 elections were contested in court, and the court found massive rigging and disenfranchisement. Besigye allowed an early internal FDC election for a successor president, which took place on 24 November 2012.

Early life and family

Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe was born in Rwakabengo, Rukungiri Municipality, Rukungiri District, southwestern Uganda, on 22 April 1956. The second-born in a family of 6, both his parents died before he finished primary school. His father w