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.
Uganda has been hard hit buy HIV/Aids, which caused 91,000 deaths in 2005.
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She made the comments in a meeting with MPs on economic development.
"I get surprised whenever I hear of a politician who abandons office and attends a funeral," the New Vision newspaper quoted her as saying.
Burials were taking up lots of time as well as productive vehicles, she said.
(BBC)
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