Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union delegation has urged Uganda to decide which side it supports in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The war which has escalated the world’s economic crisis started in February and has raged till now creating turmoil in food and energy markets, and further raising …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union has provided 8 million euros (31.8 billion shillings) towards efforts aimed at eliminating injustices related to the land tenure systems in the country. The grant to be administered by the World Bank aims at strengthening land tenure security, land administration and land …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union and the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) have revived the Sustainable Business for Uganda (SB4U), a trade improvement initiative that was disrupted by the COVID-19 outbreak, one year after its launch. The platform launched in 2019 is aimed at enabling Uganda’s export …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Head of the European Union (EU) delegation in Uganda, Ambassador Attilio Pacifici says he has called for sanctions for perpetrators who attack journalists. Pacifici was speaking during the EU-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) event in commemoration of the International day to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Human Rights Commission is unable to perform some of its core functions since the suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility-DGF. The commission is one of the entities that initially received funding from DGF, the single biggest donor basket established by development partners to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union Ambassador to Uganda, Attilio Pacifici has called upon the government to abolish the death penalty in order to enhance human dignity and promote development of human rights. Pacifici was giving a keynote address at the commemoration of the World day against the …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Artisanal marble miners in Rupa sub county, Moroto district have appealed to the European Union-EU delegation in Uganda for support towards value addition on their extractives. These say that they are exploited by middlemen and end up earning little from the marble in their area. …
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Kaabong, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Union-EU delegation in Uganda has started a five-day development mission in Karamoja sub-region, the mission head Ambassador Attilio Pacifici has revealed. The nine EU ambassadors arrived in the sub-region on Monday evening and addressed journalists at Kidepo National Park where they revealed that …
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Last November, Attilio Pacifici, the head of the EU Delegation in Uganda led seven other ambassadors from France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria on a mission to western and northern Uganda to have firsthand experience of the level of pressure Uganda’s natural resource assets such as Bugoma …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five organizations in Uganda have secured 1.6 Billion Shillings to boost conservation activities and livelihoods around protected areas. The funds are from the European Union (EU) and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). They will be availed through the International Union for …
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