UGANDA DEATHS: Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes yesterday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people. Waves of mud and rocks swept down the steep mountainside late on Monday night [local time] after seven hours of rain and engulfed the village of Nametsi, burying houses, people and livestock. The hamlets cling to isolated mountainsides with no proper road access, making rescue efforts difficult. Parts of Uganda and neighbouring Kenya have had sustained rainfall over much of the last two months, which is usually a dry period between rainy seasons, and floods are already plaguing large areas. – Reuters