Kampala — Results released on Friday by the Law Development Centre show that out of the 580 students who sat for exams in August, only 91 passed all the papers -indicating that 485 failed. At least 285 students will have to re-sit special/supplementary papers, according to a statement from Ms Joyce Werikhe, the secretary, Board of Examiners at LDC.

Forty nine students completely failed the course after failing to pass more than four subjects. Another 115 students were discontinued after failing the practical bit of the exams while two withdrew from the course. Ms Werikhe, said in a state

The government is considering resettling between 500,000 and one million people from mountainous areas, the Minister for Disaster Preparedness told the diplomatic community yesterday. Prof. Tarsis Kabwegyere said the plans would cost about Shs1 trillion which is about 14 percent of the national budget.

Speaking at a conference for foreign embassies, international aid organisations and journalists, Prof. Kabwegyere said the idea was mooted following the recent Bududa landslides that left 90 people killed and more than 300 unaccounted for. He said the government was looking to move people from hazardous areas to avoid a repetition of the disaster. "There are signs elsewhere that there may be further landslides... We may see a next round of rains which arrive with a vengeance," he said.

The areas being considered are slopes around Mt. Elgon, in districts like Mbale, Manafwa, Kapchorwa, Butaleja and Bududa and the mountainous areas of Kigezi and Rwenzori in south west Uganda. Prof. Kabwegyere said he was not yet making a formal appeal for money, since Cabinet was yet to devise a concrete proposal for the resettlement. "At the moment, I can't give you details. For this plan to be comprehensive we need to assess how many people are affected, how much it will cost, and where they may be settled," he said. A representative from the Netherlands asked the minister to explain how a project of such magnitude and cost would fit in the National Development Plan currently being developed with donors.

Prof. Kabwegyere said: "There will be a distortion," adding, "We have to sit down to see how to accommodate the resettlement given other priorities." He said the search for the remaining bodies caught in the Bududa mudslides would continue until further notice, despite the common understanding that most corpses would now not be identifiable, given their state of decomposition after two weeks, and the lack of adequate digging equipment. "It is not the economics of it," he said, but the "emotional importance," of continuing the search for those who have lost loved ones.