Ugandan police say highway problem over

Police in Uganda say they have persuaded long-distance lorry drivers to call off their action in blocking a section of the trans-Africa highway at the Rwanda-Uganda border crossing.

Some 90 drivers had been blocking the highway for three days in protest over the arret of two of their colleagues, whom police had accused of murdering a man they had found siphoning fuel from their parked tankers.

Police say they have arrested the two suspects, who are alleged to have set fire to the thief with the fuel they caught him stealing.

The lorries had blocked a 20km section of the highway between the western Ugandan town of Kabale and the Katuna border post since Sunday.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service