Military police officers shot Uganda’s top opposition politician in the arm and fired tear gas into a hospital as demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out across the country.

Millions of Ugandans lined up to vote today in the east African nation’s presidential ballot pitting the country’s long-serving president against his former ally and personal physician.

A Rwandan Pentecostal pastor facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during Rwanda’s 100-day slaughter was arrested in Uganda 16 years later, a police spokeswoman said.

A cargo plane crashed into Lake Victoria near Uganda’s main airport today, police said.

Ugandan police said 19 primary school children aged between seven and 10 burned to death with two of their matrons when their dormitory caught fire.