By Michael Tapeng, The speaker of the Ugandan 11th parliament Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah died on Sunday in the United States after a long illness. Oulanyah was elected to the position on the 24th May 2021, after defeating the former speaker Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga. He also served as deputy speaker of the Ugandan parliament from May […]
By Editorial Team, The African Union (AU) is calling on the international community to lift the arms embargo and other sanctions imposed on South Sudan. “This is to enable the country to build the required capacity of the unified armed forces and for them to more effectively discharge their constitutional mandate of defending the territorial […]
Photo from Google The police in Uganda are reporting that a number of people have died following suicide bombing in the capital Kampala on Tuesday, the following is a full statement by the Uganda Police Force. We wish to inform the public that we have registered two separate deadly suicide attacks, within, Kampala City, on […]
UN News Ten unarmed Egyptian peacekeepers from the UN Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) were shot and wounded on Monday. According to MINUSCA, the blue helmets were part of the Egyptian Constituent Police Unit and were shot by elements of the presidential guard. Two were seriously injured. The peacekeepers arrived on November 1 at M’Poko International Airport, as part of the periodic rotation and […]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday urged authorities in Ethiopia to allow vital humanitarian work there to continue, following the recent decision to declare seven of the Organization’s staff persona non grata and expel them from the country. Mr. Guterres was addressing the security council where he briefed on the growing needs in the north, stemming from the […]