Uganda: It's Chief Justice Bart Katureebe

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In her prayer at the opening of last week's judges' conference in Entebbe, Commercial court judge Hellen Obura beseeched God to help the judiciary get a substantive chief justice.

Yesterday, that prayer was answered. In a 112-word statement, State House announced that President Museveni had approved the nomination of Justice Bart Magunda Katureebe as chief justice, ending two years of rope-pulling between the president and the Judicial Service Commission.

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