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Uganda opposition leader Kizza Besigye launches presidential bid

A campaign poster of Kizza Besigye at the Forum for Democracy Change offices in Kampala.

Prominent Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has entered next year's election race against veteran President Yoweri Museveni, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, a report said Thursday.

A key leader of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Besigye is currently in Britain and submitted his nomination form in absentia, according to the Daily Monitor newspaper.

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