Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni today blamed last weekend’s devastating rebel attack in northern Uganda on “mistakes” by the army and apologised to the region’s people.

NEWSPAPERS in east Africa yesterday shed no tears at the death of Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator whose blood-drenched reign in the 1970s left hundreds of thousands dead in one of Africa’s most shameful episodes.

One of the numerous sons of former dictator Idi Amin is running for mayor in a small town in eastern Uganda, a reports said.

Ugandan soldiers have arrested a Lendu tribal warrior for the killing of six Red Cross workers in Congo, adding that the attack was a robbery, a top general and newspapers reported today.