| KAMPALA
The coordinator of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) in the
United States, Ms Anne Mugisha , has resigned in a move that caught the
party leadership here by surprise.
In a June 24 e-mail to the FDC
chairperson, Col. Dr Kizza Besigye, Mugisha said,
I regret that I
am unable to continue with the task assigned to me. She added: I have
serious financial constraints that restrict my ability to represent FDC
effectively.
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Ms Anne
Mugisha |
Mugisha explained that she was had resigned because the position
required a level of financial commitment that she could not sustain.
However, she emphasised that she would continue to support the
office of the External Coordinator for USA within her limited financial
means but with unlimited energy as a democracy activist and a fully-paid
up member of FDC.
I am available to serve in a position of leadership in FDC which
will not require me to make huge personal financial commitments at the
expense of urgent family obligations, Mugisha added.
Mugisha is a single parent, raising three children in the United
States where she has been living in exile since 2002. She works as
Programme Associate with Womens Learning Partnership, a
Washington-based organisation which promotes womens empowerment in
developing countries.
She dismissed speculation that she had been fired or had resigned
because of disagreements with other FDC
leaders. | 
