Uganda: Besigye is back, registers

Dr Kizza Besigye, the leader of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change, returned home, ending his four-year exile in South Africa. Besigye, whose return date was forced by the Electoral Commission's October 28 deadline for registration of voters, was also registered on the same day at the FDC's offices in Najjanankumbi. He will vote at his home polling station at Southern Ward, Rukungiri Town Council. The retired colonel, whom the government has accused of possible involvement with a shadowy rebel group, the People's Redemption Army, said he would not renounce armed rebellion as President Museveni had demanded in the past.