Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has called for peaceful protests against the outcome of the recent general election.
Incumbent Yoweri Museveni won the presidential poll with 68% of the vote.
Dr Besigye said both the presidential and parliamentary votes were a sham, with ballot stuffing and intimidation.
His protest call came a day after the electoral commission postponed the mayoral election in the capital because of alleged vote rigging.
A senior member of the commission said he had found evidence of ballot-box stuffing when he visited several polling stations in Kampala.
'Tension'
"The time is now for the people of Uganda to rise and peacefully protest against the outcome of the 2011 elections," said Dr Besigye, who stood against Mr Museveni for a third time.
Election results
Yoweri Museveni: 68%
Kizza Besigye: 26%
Before the election, Mr Museveni vowed to stop any street protests and warned that Egyptian-style demonstrations could not happen in Uganda.
"We can't allow them to demonstrate, there's already enough tension," police spokeswoman Judith Nabakoba told Reuters news agency.
African Union election observers have said the polls in Uganda suffered from severe shortcomings, and cannot be described as free and fair.
Other international observers have also criticised the election process, but said it was largely peaceful.
Dr Besigye and Mr Museveni were allies in the guerrilla war which brought the latter to power in 1986, but they later fell out.
The crowd grew angry over the prolonged wait for tickets
Fans queuing outside the Chinnaswamy stadium in the Indian city of Bangalore to buy tickets for the cricket World Cup have clashed with police.
Television pictures showed policemen hitting dozens of fans on their legs and backs.
Many of the fans had been waiting since Wednesday night. Reports said they were angered by the shortage of tickets available for purchase at the venue.
Bangalore is to host Sunday's World Cup showdown between India and England.
According to reports, barely 8,000 tickets are up for sale at the stadium which can accommodate 40,000 people.
The BBC's Alison Mitchell, who is in Bangalore, says that there were chaotic scenes on Thursday - tickets for the match were on sale from early in the morning and people started queuing the night before.
Our correspondent says that the queues snaked around stadium, holding up traffic on a busy road outside.
Police used batons to control them and unconfirmed reports say that some suffered serious injuries in crushes by the ticket booths.
When the available tickets sold out in two-and-a-half hours, thousands of fans were disappointed, although the crowd dispersed quickly.
Mishandling
The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi says that ticket sales have been a huge problem for the organisers - only a few thousand tickets are available for the general public because the bulk of them have been given away to sponsors and commercial partners.
There were chaotic scenes as the police struggled to restore order
The match was originally scheduled to be held in Calcutta's Eden Gardens but was later moved to Bangalore after the International Cricket Council (ICC) said it was with unhappy with the preparations.
Karnataka State Cricket Association Secretary Javagal Srinath said that he had no regrets about the match being switched to Bangalore despite the disturbances.
"There were 7,000 tickets that were issued for sale today," he said.
"Also, we had to honour the Calcutta commitment. So in total we had 15,000 tickets available for sale through the gate.
"We are trying to cover as much as possible. But for a match of this magnitude, even if you double or triple [the capacity], it's not enough."
'Sporadic incident'
Bangalore police chief Shankar Bidari dismissed the trouble as a "minor thing" and insisted his force was well prepared to ensure that World Cup encounter went ahead smoothly.
Mr Bidari said that no-one was hurt in the incident and that police only attempted to regulate an unruly section of a crowd numbering more than 20,000 people outside the stadium.
"They were jostling with each other. We had to use mild force to make sure that people did not fall over each other and injure themselves," he said.
"It was a sporadic incident and the situation was brought under control within three to four minutes."
The ICC has now written to the Indian organisers of the World Cup complaining about mishandling of ticket sales and distribution.
Police said that the disturbance was quickly dealt with
On Monday, an official website selling tickets for the final crashed after millions of people tried to log on. Many others who had bought tickets online up to six months ago have still not received them.
The clashes on Thursday are the latest mishap to hit India's World Cup arrangements.
Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, the venue for the final, was only given clearance to host matches by the city's fire department earlier this week.
England fans were strongly critical when news of the venue change to Bangalore first emerged earlier this month. Many complained that they had been left out of pocket.
The 27 February showdown with India was switched to the city after it was ruled that Calcutta's iconic Eden Gardens would not be ready in time.
"They'd bought tickets, booked flights and accommodation and now it has been pulled last minute," England supporter Paul Burnham told the BBC at the time of the switch.
The match between 1983 champions India and three-time runners-up England at Eden Gardens was to be one of the highlights of the month-long World Cup group stage, with tickets first going on sale last June.
Eden Gardens, which held 90,000 people before its recent renovation, is a place of pilgrimage for international cricketers and fans, having first hosted a Test in 1934 and staged the 1987 World Cup final when Australia beat England.
Fighting has erupted in western Ivory Coast, breaching the six-year ceasefire between ex-rebels and government troops, the United Nations says.
A UN spokesman told the BBC there were clashes in the village of Teapleu in the early hours of Thursday morning.
He said given the political stalemate, the reports were very "worrying".
Tensions have been rising since President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to hand over to Alassane Ouattara, widely seen as the winner of November's poll.
An armed rebellion in 2002 split the world's largest cocoa producer between the north, held by New Forces rebels who are backing Mr Ouattara, and the government-controlled south.
November's presidential vote was supposed to reunify the West African nation.
Hundreds fleeing
Teapleu, near the border with Liberia, is along the buffer zone between the north and south.
"This is a very serious issue because it would be the first time the ceasefire is broken in six years," Hamadoun Toure, the spokesman for the UN mission in Ivory Coast, told the BBC's Newshour programme.
People have been leaving the suburb of Akobo in Abidjan because of fighting in the city
"It will also change the nature of the tension because so far we've been witnessing violence between civilians and the army - but now if we have two armies face to face it will be very very complicated."
He said details of the fighting were sketchy.
The ex-rebels said they were attacked at 0400 GMT and that fighting has stopped temporarily.
However, a southern army officer told AFP news agency that one of their posts had been attacked and "major reinforcements" were expected in the area soon.
Meanwhile, clashes between rival supporters in the main city of Abidjan have claimed up to 20 lives since Monday.
Hundreds of residents have been fleeing Abobo, the pro-Ouattara suburb of Abidjan which has witnessed much of the fighting.
Many were leaving on foot as the public transport was not working because of the fighting.
Journalist Pauline Bax told the BBC that the fighting in the north of the city centres around a military barracks called Camp Commando and residents report hearing heavy artillery and sporadic gunfire.
According to the UN, about 500 people, mainly pro-Ouattara supporters, have been killed since the election results were announced at the beginning of December.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations, a judge has ruled.
At Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London, District Judge Howard Riddle said the extradition would not breach Mr Assange's human rights.
Mr Assange said the ruling, which he will challenge, was due to a "European Arrest Warrant system run amok".
The 39-year-old denies three allegations of sexual assault and one of rape last August in Stockholm.
He believes the claims are politically motivated because of Wikileaks' publication of sensitive material - including leaked US diplomatic cables - from governments and high-profile organisations that has made headlines worldwide.
Mr Assange has been released on bail on the same terms he was granted in December.
Bail was granted then after he had spent nine days in Wandsworth prison in London following his arrest under a European Arrest Warrant on 7 December.
Following the extradition ruling on Thursday, Mr Assange said: "What we saw today at Belmarsh was a rubber-stamping process. It comes as no surprise, but is nonetheless wrong.
Maddy SavageBBC News, at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court
Julian Assange looked calm as District Judge Howard Riddle read his conclusions. But he remains in limbo as his lawyers begin to construct an appeal. It's likely to be tough - the judge commented that the defence team had already "left no stone unturned".
The media circus that has surrounded this case continues, but fewer supporters turned out this morning compared with previous hearings. Some of those that did made themselves noticed by wearing orange jumpsuits and bearded Guy Fawkes masks as seen in the film V for Vendetta. They insist this case is politically motivated.
Daniel Gianstefani, 16, from Australia, said: "The authorities want him to be sent away to stop him embarrassing them because they are afraid of the truth."
The judge said he was confident Julian Assange was wanted in Sweden purely over sex assault allegations. His most critical comment toward the authorities was directed at Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whom he accused of "improper intervention".
"There was no consideration during this entire process as to the merits of the allegations made against me, no consideration or examination of even the complaints made in Sweden."
He added: "We have always known that in all likelihood we would have to appeal."
'Public enemy number one'
Judge Riddle dismissed the argument that Mr Assange would not receive a fair trial in Sweden that had been made by his lawyers during the two-and-a-half-day hearing earlier this month.
They had argued that criticism by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt had made Mr Assange "public enemy number one" in Sweden.
But delivering his ruling on Thursday, the judge said: "The defence refer to the alleged denigration of the defendant by the Swedish prime minister.
"For this reason and other reasons it is said Mr Assange will not receive a fair trial. I don't accept this was the purpose of the comment or the effect."
Mr Assange's lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson QC, had also argued that rape trials in Sweden were regularly "tried in secret behind closed doors in a flagrant denial of justice".
Clare Montgomery QC, for the Swedish authorities, told the hearing that evidence from a trial would be heard in private but the arguments would be made in public.
Judge Riddle said that did not mean the trial would be unfair or breach human rights.
Death penalty
Dismissing further arguments made by Mr Assange's lawyers, the judge found:
The allegations against Mr Assange were extradition offences
The prosecutor who issued the European Arrest Warrant for Mr Assange had been suitably qualified
The warrant was issued for the purpose of prosecution and not simply for questioning
During the hearing two weeks ago, Mr Robertson said his client could ultimately be extradited to the US on separate charges relating to Wikileaks - and could face the death penalty there.
In response, Ms Montgomery said Sweden provided "protection against that sort of threat and violation" taking place.
The European Court of Human Rights would intervene if Mr Assange was to face the prospect of "inhuman or degrading treatment or an unfair trial" in the US, she said.
Pictures of former ministers Zoheir Garana and Ahmed El Magharagi and steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz inside their prison cell made it into most of today’s papers, capturing a fall from power that many fantasized about but never thought possible.
Al Ahram stayed true to its newly-found opposition voice by leading today's issue with the general prosecutor’s decision to forbid former officials Ahmed Nazif, Atef Ebeid, Anas El Fekky and Farouk Hosny from traveling and to freeze the assets of other former officials and businessmen. The paper also announces a request sent to France to freeze the Mubarak family assets. Al Youm al-Saba' newspaper publishes former culture minister's reaction to the decision, which shows his surprise and dismay. The former minister reportedly feels that he is being treated unfairly.
Between the rising number of casualties in Libya, the protesters’ victories and tales of the president’s eccentricities inspired by the incoherent speech he gave on Tuesday, the situation across the border got a lot of attention from local press.
Al Shorouk announced that the protesters in Libya took control of the eastern part of the country and were joined by the minister of interior, army leaders and Libyan diplomats around the world, who resigned in objection to President Muammar al-Qadhafi’s violent attacks on protesters. Al Shorouk quotes a Libyan protester saying that Qadhafi will commit “an unprecedented massacre” in Libya.
Al Shorouk also publishes news about WikiLeaks documents revealing that the Qadhafi family is hiding billions of dollars from the country’s oil revenues.
Al Ahram puts the death toll in Libya at 1000 and announces the return of 18,000 Egyptians from Libya. It also reports the international community's condemnation of Qadhafi's acts.
Regarding Egypt's own revolution, the papers report that an investigative committee concluded that protesters were shot with live ammunition and that the general prosecutor is preparing to send the responsible parties to a speedy trial.
Al Ahram details the contents of the first cabinet meeting after the latest reshuffling, but most independent newspapers gave little attention to the meeting. The paper reports the minister of interior’s announcement that only 256 political prisoners are still being detained and that they don’t include any of the 25 January youth protesters. This statement contradicts the reports of human rights organizations, which estimate a much higher number, and with testimonies of activists who insist that their colleagues who were arrested during the revolution remain incarcerated.
Regarding the fire that broke out Wednesday in a building adjacent to the Ministry of Interior, Al Ahram quotes a security source saying that the dismissed policemen who started the fire have criminal records and don’t have the right to return to work. Al Shorouk, however, highlights a different angle of the story, reporting that classified documents were leaked from the building during the fire. Al Shorouk says reports indicate the leaked documents were mentioned by Former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly, who said that they will incriminate former officials.
Al Shorouk newspaper translates Mohamed ElBaradei’s Financial Times article announcing his vision for the next phase in Egypt. ElBaradei expresses his concern over the army’s “exclusive and ambiguous” leadership of this phase. He says that the constitutional amendments are only a temporary solution that doesn’t annul the need for a new constitution. He suggests the formation of a presidential council that includes two civilians and one military official, all unrelated to the old regime. ElBaradei also demands the formation of a government of experts to replace the current government, which bears traces of the old regime, and suggests the extension of the transitional phase from six months to one year.
Egypt's papers:
Al-Ahram: Daily, state-run, largest distribution in Egypt
Al-Akhbar: Daily, state-run, second to Al-Ahram in institutional size
Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church has denounced the army's removal of a wall enclosing a desert monastery, which accused the army of "excessive violence" that injured six staff.
The army removed the wall because the monastery had not obtained a license to build it, as required by Egyptian law.
In a statement on Thursday, the church said that the decision by the Anba Bishoy Church, located at Wadi al-Natrun, Beheira, to erect the wall was "unwise".
Around 2000 Copts gathered on Wednesday in Tahrir Square to protest the incident, following the weekly sermon by the head of the Egyptian Coptic church, Pope Shenouda III.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has governed the country since the 11 February ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak, said on its Facebook page that soldiers had removed "some walls that had been illegally built on the road and on land owned by the state."
The army denied claims that it had been in involved in attacks on the monastery or that it had any intention to demolish the building, asserting its “belief in freedom and the sanctity of places of worship."
The monastery issued a statement, which observers considered the first official admission by an Egyptian church of infringing on state lands.
The monastery said the army acted with excessive violence, injuring six of its staff. It urged the military council to investigate the incident, immediately release the detained church members, and hold the wrongdoers accountable.
It was Kizza Besigye's third election bid 
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