Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has revealed why he is a teetotaller, saying he once tried to drink beer and whiskey and found both alcoholic drinks bitter and disgusting.

Quote Message: I had never tasted alcohol before then one of my friends convinced me to. I tried beer; it's so bitter like omululuza (bitter leaf). I asked why they were drinking it, he told me, 'You'll know the sweetness later.' I tried Johnnie Walker [whisky] and it was like fire.

Quote Message: "If it [Johnnie Walker] could burn my tongue, what would have happened to the liver and other internal organs?"

Mr Museveni made the comments on Tuesday at a passing-out event for prison service cadets in the capital, Kampala: