Almost 700 lecturers of Makerere University in the Ugandan capital went on strike on Tuesday, demanding pay hikes ranging between 100 and 150 percent, their union said. "It has been decided after a meeting that all lecturers at Makerere University will stop providing their services to the institution until our pay package has been increased," the chairperson of the Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA), Ezra Twesigomwa, told reporters.