Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf is recovering well from bronchitis in a Nairobi hospital and will shortly fly to Britain for a check-up on his liver transplant, the Somali ambassador to Kenya said on Thursday. Suggestions by some security and diplomatic sources that Yusuf was in very serious condition were “lies”, the envoy, Mohamed Ali Nur, told Reuters after a morning visit to the hospital where the president has been since Tuesday.
| Of course those are lies. Somali bigs always fly to foreign capitals for a bout of .. bronchitis. |
“He is doing well and is very upbeat. He was walking and exercising in his room,” Nur said, noting that the stress of Somalia’s political turmoil had contributed to the infection. “In the last four weeks, he has had a lot of stress. He was busy with the appointment of the new prime minister and cabinet. He had slept very little. All this made him very tired.” |