FORMER KENNEDY CENTER EMPLOYEES ALLEGE LEADERSHIP DELAYED ROOF REPAIRS BEFORE CITING SAFETY ISSUES IN CLOSURE DECISION. (PHOTO).

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 Former Kennedy Center employees allege leadership delayed roof repairs before citing safety issues in closure decision Former Kennedy Center employees allege that the venue’s leadership knew about serious structural problems well before citing newly discovered hazards as the reason for its abrupt closure this month. The claims were outlined in a letter to Congress from a lawyer representing anonymous whistleblowers. The letter accuses the center’s executive director and chief operating officer, Matt Floca, of failing to prioritize roof repairs and stopping a funded repair plan in April. Floca disputes the allegations, saying recent inspections revealed that water damage had spread farther into the building than officials previously knew. In a September court declaration, Floca cited “acute risks to public safety” following an inspection that found deterioration in a roof terrace canopy and a partial ceiling collapse. The former employees contend those dangers were already known to...

UGANDA SAYS ITS TROOPS TO REMAIN IN SOMALIA DESPITE AU MISSION UNCERTAINTY. (PHOTO).


 Uganda says its troops to remain in Somalia despite AU mission uncertainty


Uganda's defence minister said Friday its troops would remain in Somalia, despite growing uncertainty over the future of the African Union mission, under a pre-existing bilateral agreement.


Somalia has been battling Al-Shabaab terrorists for around two decades.


Uganda has roughly 4,500 troops in the country under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), the leading force supporting the Somali army, and a further 2,000 under a bilateral agreement, a military source told AFP.


However, the future of AUSSOM has been thrown into doubt after Washington announced it would end payments to the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS), which provides crucial logistics to the mission, by the year's end.


‘Arrangement to evolve’


On Friday, the Ugandan Defence Minister Kiryowa Kiwanuka told AFP that "Uganda is going to remain in Somalia", declining to give further details but indicating its presence would be outside AUSSOM.


"The arrangement that we are going to have on how we remain in Somalia is going to evolve, but... we already have a force there on bilateral arrangement with Somalia," he said.

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