NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 4 (Garowe Online) The ailing president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will travel to London this week on a routine medical checkup, his spokesman told reporters in Mogadishu on Monday.
President Abdullahi Yusuf is in Nairobi, Kenya, where a heads of state summit hosted by the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) recently ended with regional leaders issuing a set of standards for the TFG to meet before its mandate expires in mid 2009.
"The President is health I deny false reports that he is ill," presidential spokesman Hussein Mohamed "Hubsired" said.
He indicated that the Somali leader will soon travel to a hospital in the United Kingdom, where President Yusuf will reportedly undergo a "routine" medical check up.
Yusuf, 73, has been living with a liver transplant since 1996 and has paid regular medical visits to London since being elected president four years ago.
