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The head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday appealed for the international community to provide an urgent boost in funding and commitment to address Sudan’s escalating humanitarian crisis, now entering its tenth month. A staggering six million people have been displaced within Sudan since the war between rival militaries – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RAF) – erupted on 15 April 2023.   […]

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry stated that it is essential to ensure that the Non Aligned Movement continues to play a significant role in multilateralism, particularly on issues of importance to the global South, when addressing the Ministerial Meeting of the 19 Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that is currently ongoing in Kampala, Uganda from 17 to 18 January 2024. The Republic of Uganda assumed the Chairmanship of the 19th Summit […]

FIFA (www.FIFA.com) has launched two invitations to tender (ITTs), one in the Netherlands and the other in Belgium and Luxembourg, for the sale of media rights to the FIFA World Cup 26™ and the FIFA World Cup 2030™. The tender processes will allow FIFA to select the entity, or entities, in the Netherlands, and Belgium and Luxembourg, that are best placed to secure the required transmission and programming commitments with […]

Parliament’s Budget Committee has rejected a request for Shs10 billion to construct the National Planning Authority House, urging government to first utilise the former Bwebajja Hotel it acquired to house its entities renting private premises. While scrutinising the budget allocations to the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development for the 2024/2025 financial year, MPs expressed concern that money was allocated to refurbish the Bwebajja facility along Entebbe Road to […]

The African Energy Chamber (https://EnergyChamber.org) is happy to announce the appointment of Tony B. Moyo as a Director within its ranks. Tony brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record in senior roles, servicing clients over many decades in the oil and gas industry, strengthening the team at the African Energy Chamber for an exciting era of growth and innovation. Tony will be leading several initiatives at the […]

The Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has indicated that the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) requires Shs79.973 billion to cater for outstanding arrears for prisoners’ feeding accrued by Financial Year 2023/2024. Committee chairperson Hon. Wilson Kajwengye, said this while presenting a report on the National Budget Framework Paper for Financial Year 2024/2025, before the Budget Committee of Parliament on Wednesday, 17 January 2024. According to the committee report, the daily […]

The Belarusian delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Aleinik, will take part in the XIX Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala (Uganda) on 18-20 January 2024. Uganda will be the sixth African country to host this high profile NAM event.   The main objective of the current summit is to bring together leaders from around the world to address pressing global issues and promote cooperation […]

HE Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater met on Wednesday with HE Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition of the Republic of South Africa, Ebrahim Patel, on the sidelines of the activities of the World Economic Forum Davos 2024. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation relations between the two countries, in addition to a number of topics of mutual […]

The Ethiopian country office of the World Health Organization (WHO Ethiopia) has taken a significant step towards addressing workplace harassment and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in the health sector.  In line with this, WHO Ethiopia successfully conducted three sessions of Training of Trainers (ToT) on National Health Sector Prevention and Response to Workplace Harassment and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (NHS-PRWPH&SEA) guidelines. These groundbreaking training sessions, the first of their […]