Banjul, Gambia | AFP | The European Union announced aid worth 225 million euros ($240 million) for The Gambia on Thursday as President Adama Barrow warned that the nation was “virtually bankrupt” due to economic mismanagement by the former regime. The EU froze assistance to The Gambia in December 2014 …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | Somali lawmakers were choosing a president under tight security Wednesday, with roads closed and residents urged to remain indoors over fears of a strike on the capital by Shabaab militants. Freshly elected MPs and senators held a first round of voting in a hangar at …
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Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa has called for international partnerships with Uganda’s Settlement Transformation Project (2016-2021) that aims to achieve self-reliance and local settlement of refugees. The Ugandan programme, officials say, aims to promote social development in the refugee hosting areas as a durable solution to challenges related to refugees, while protecting …
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Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Nearly half the population of strife-torn Central African Republic needs humanitarian assistance, the UN said Monday, appealing for $399 million from donors to cover the country’s aid needs next year. UN humanitarian coordinator for Central Africa, Fabrizio Hochschild, told reporters that decades of chronic poverty, …
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VIDEO: The European Commission has announced sh300 billion aid to countries that affected by the influx of South Sudan refugees. Uganda will get 30 million Euros. The EU commissioner humanitarian aid made the revelation while on a field visit to Bidibidi refuge settlement in Yumbe district. Share on: …
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The United Nation’s refugee agency UNHCR has flown over 100 tonnes of emergency relief items to Uganda to help thousands of refugees fleeing violence and human rights violations in South Sudan. The shipment contained thousands of mosquito nets, sleeping mats, plastic sheeting, kitchen sets and solar lights, which are set to …
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Juba, South Sudan | AFP | It was looting on an epic scale; a month’s worth of food aid for over 220,000 South Sudanese, all stolen in just two days along with the giant warehouses that stored it. As fighting raged between rival forces in the capital Juba last week, …
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Amman, Jordan | AFP | Three-quarters of the population of South Sudan needs humanitarian aid after four days of deadly fighting, the UN’s World Food Programme director Etharin Cousin told AFP on Tuesday. Between Friday and Monday, the capital Juba was rocked by clashes between forces loyal to President Salva …
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The crowd was in celebratory mood from start to finish, dressed in yellow, some painted in the NRM party colours. “We didn’t have money 30 years ago however we now have 16,000 billion for the next financial budget. I don’t need orders from foreigners on how to rule our country,” …
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By Sarah Namulondo Stefano Dejak, Italy’s ambassador to Uganda speaks to The Independent’s Sarah Namulondo about good governance, vision 2040 and the Uganda-Italy cooperation. On June 2 you will be celebrating the Italian day, tell us about the significance of the Italian Day to the people of Italy? It is …
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