Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has said that it will account for all the funds received for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday, staff from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) handed over 376 million shillings to the Ministry of Health. This same amount was …
Read More »AfDB approves emergency grant to curb desert locusts in East Africa
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | African Development Bank has approved USD 1.5 million emergency relief grant to assist nine countries in the East and The Horn of Africa on the control of swarms of desert locusts that are threatening livelihoods and food security. The proposed assistance will be channelled to …
Read More »IGAD considers regional infrastructure masterplan
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will have more trade options upon the Implementation of the Regional Infrastructure Master Plan of the Intergovernmental Agency on Development (IGAD). The masterplan seeks to establish infrastructure development priorities for IGAD countries; Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. The move will …
Read More »What next for the EAC chairmanship?
Next chair of complicated six-member bloc has to deal with Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan issues Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The next East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit is scheduled for Feb. 28 and it is expected that Rwandan President Paul Kagame who has had a …
Read More »Desert locusts invade Abim, Katakwi districts
Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Swarms of desert locusts have been sighted in Abim and Katakwi districts on Monday evening. Abim district, located in Karamoja sub region borders Kapelebyong/ Amuria districts in Teso Sub Region and Otuke/Agago districts in Lango Sub Region. In Abim, the locusts landed on Alerek rock …
Read More »No more delays to South Sudan peace deal, East Africans warn
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia | AFP | East African nations said Sunday there could be no more delays in forming a power-sharing government in war-torn South Sudan, despite talks between rival leaders ending in deadlock. President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, whose fall out in 2013 sparked a conflict …
Read More »Karamoja ill prepared amid potential invasion of desert locusts
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moroto district senior agriculture officer Mark Loli has warned that the area does not have the capacity to handle an incursion of desert locusts if it spreads to Uganda. The warning comes just days after the Food and Agriculture Organisation-FAO announced that there could …
Read More »Museveni and South Sudan’s sad story
SOUTH SUDAN: Bringing peace puzzles regional big men Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | The Nov.12 deadline for forming a government of national unity in South Sudan was never going to be met. A tripartite summit where President Museveni met both President Salva Kiir and his former vice president-turned-rival Riek …
Read More »Museveni, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Abiy eye Sudan solution
Juba, South Sudan | THE INDEPENDENT & AFP | Nobel Peace laureate, Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed and Ugandan President Yower Museveni, have arrived in Juba for a Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) consultative meeting aimed at reconciling the Sudan Transitional Government and the Sudanese Armed Groups. Also …
Read More »IGAD countries lose more than US$9 billion in cattle rustling
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five countries under the Inter Government Authority on Development – IGAD have lost more than US$9 billion (about UGX 33.2 trillion) in cattle rustling especially in the Normads, according to IGAD’s principal Researcher, Paul Gamba, He disclosed this while closing IGAD summit on …
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