UGANDA's top junior tennis player Duncan Mugabe has arrived in the country ahead of the $30,000 (sh49.6m) ITF/Futures circuit that gets underway in Burundi next week.

Prosecution has expressed discontent over recent comments by former Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye on the ongoing efforts to prosecute Burundian nationals who participated in the 1994 Genocide.

After a spirited appeal, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, considered poorer than Kenya, will have some protection from trade imbalances, as the region prepares for a free movement of goods, services and labour come 2010.

The release of detainees suspected to be members of the Palipehutu-Forces for National Liberation (FNL), Burundi's last rebel group, would remove a major impediment to the ceasefire between the group and the government, sources said.