Ugandan urges weekday burial ban

A Ugandan official has suggested to MPs that funerals should be limited to Saturday afternoons to stop people taking time off work to attend them.

Speciosa Kazibwe, a former vice-president who now heads a state development agency, noted that Uganda's death rate was very high.



Ms Kazibwe said each constituency should have a mortuary with a fridge that could preserve corpses.

One MP who heard the proposal, John Emile Otekat, said Ms Kazibwe's plan would "save a lot of time wasted and it would also make families really prepare for burial, instead of just burying a person just like that."