Uganda: Besigye Breaks Silence On 'Ill Health'

27 November 2011

Dr Kizza Besigye, rumoured over the weekend on social networks to have passed on in the US, last evening said except for a "troublesome flu" attack, he is in good health.

Speaking to this newspaper by telephone from his family's home in New York, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party leader urged his supporters to "relax" and ignore people "anxious to pronounce me dead".

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