Month: February 2024

The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education expressed its shock and sadness at the death yesterday of six learners from Riebeeckstad in the Free State. Committee Chairperson Ms Bongiwe Mbinqo-Gigaba said the committee is heartbroken following the news that six girls passed away in a horrific bus accident while being transported from a sports event. “This is such a tragedy; six young lives ripped away. We mourn with the parents, families, […]

The election of Lady Justice, Julia Sebutinde as Vice President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been received with applause from Parliament. In a press release, the ICJ in The Hague, Netherlands announced on Tuesday, 06 February 2024 that Sebutinde was voted by her peers, for a term of three years. Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa said that Justice Sebutinde’s achievement has raised the Ugandan flag in the international […]

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, welcomed H.E. Harriet Mathews, Director General for Africa and the Americas at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), to the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, on February 6, 2024. The primary objective of the meeting was to enhance the partnership between FCDO and ECOWAS in the field of development cooperation. President Touray and H.E. Harriet Mathews, Director General for […]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an Extraordinary Session of the Mediation and Security Council at the Ministerial Level on Thursday, February 8, 2024, at its Commission Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. The Council will be discussing current security and political issues in the Region.Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).    

The United Nations and its partners today appealed for a combined $4.1 billion to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of civilians in war-torn Sudan and those who have fled to neighbouring countries. Ten months since the conflict erupted, half of Sudan’s population – some 25 million people – needs humanitarian assistance and protection. More than 1.5 million people have fled across Sudan’s borders to the Central African Republic, Chad, […]

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who is also the Commander in Chief of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), has commended Ugandans for embracing the ideas of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) that have enabled the country to develop. “I thank you very much, the people of Uganda; when we brought our ideas, you accepted them because if you didn’t accept, we would have been isolated,” he said. The President, who […]