Uganda: Activists Oppose Uganda Hosting Commonwealth

Uganda has increasingly come in the spotlight at the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta as activist groups lobby for "stringent" action against the country following the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. Human rights and other civil society organisations have also threatened to demonstrate when President Yoweri Museveni arrives in Malta. The development puts in jeorpardy Uganda's bid to host the 2007 CHOGM.