Uganda Reopens Airport
Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda —
Uganda’s main international airport, Entebbe, opened today for the first time since a July 27 coup, and the ruling military council installed the main political opponent of ousted President Milton Obote as interior minister.
Paul Ssemogerere was sworn in by Lt. Gen. Tito Okello, interim head of state, to run the police force and the prisons he once denounced as notorious violators of human rights. Okello also swore in Col. G. Wilson Toko, former chief of Uganda Airlines, as defense minister.
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