It's darkness for Besigye as he languishes in jail, as Kenya seeks to sell tea in Sudan

Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye in the dock at the Makindye Martial Court in Kampala, on November 20, 2024. [AFP]

I have seen an old clip of Dr Kizza Besigye during his days as a bushdoctor, or more appropriately, a doctor in the bush, when he was Ugandan Prezzo M7's comrade-in-arms during the Bush Wars.

That's when M7 led a ragtag insurgency that overran Kampala and installed National Resistance Army, which later morphed into the National Resistance Movement, in 1986. Then, Besigye was a bright-eyed and handsome youth, and he served as M7's personal physician. In the bush, he served the larger populace in their area of operation, including mending the bones or suturing wounds of the soldiers felled in the field.