Uganda lawmakers brawl during presidential age-limit debate
Uganda MPs scuffled in parliament ahead of a debate on whether to grant long-serving President Yoweri Museveni another term in office.
Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday shouted, shoved, threw punches and lobbed documents in a fight between ruling party politicians and those from the opposition ahead of a debate on whether to grant long-serving President Yoweri Museveni another term in office.
Museveni, 73, has been ruling the country for more than three decades, and has expressed a willingness to run for a sixth consecutive term in 2021.
But there is a constitutional age limit saying no one over the age of 75 can serve as president.
In order to clear the way for Museveni, some members of his party presented a constitutional amendment scrapping age limits.
After a six-hour debate tempers flared, an MP was accused of bringing a gun into the chamber and the fight began.
At least one MP brandished a chair and attempted to hit his opponent over the head.
TRT World'sPhilip Owira has more on the story.