Armed Responses Meet Student Protests in Uganda
20 August 2025 | The Independent
In April, dozens of students gathered at the Kyambogo University’s student center. The then-student council president, Akiso Benjamin, called the meeting to address growing frustrations with the university’s administration over issues such as penalties for late registration, missing academic results, and students being blocked from exams, despite paying most of their tuition fees.
Eight days prior, he’d formally written to the administration about these issues, but they didn’t respond, he says…