The Ugandan government says it'll have to relocate around half a million people living in mountainous areas because of the danger of mudslides. Hundreds of people are thought to have been killed last week by a huge mudslide on the slopes of Mount Elgon, in the east of the country. Here is Will Ross.
The State Minister for Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru told the BBC the government had no other choice than to relocate 300,000 people living on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda, as well as 200,000 people from the Ruwenzori Mountains and Kigezi region, in the west of the country. Mr Ecweru admitted that people would be reluctant to move from their ancestral homes, and he said that it would be a major challenge to find suitable land for them.
The German Justice Minister has described Vatican confidentiality rules as a wall of silence. She was outlining progress in prosecutors' inquiries into alleged child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy. Investigations are now underway in 18 of the Catholic Church's 27 dioceses in Germany. The Minister was referring to a Vatican confidentiality rule which requires all allegations to be first investigated by the Church itself.
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