Tag: Uganda

‘They’re in Dubai pubs’ — Uganda’s 600-member COP28 delegation sparks criticisms

Aminu Imam

The Ugandan government is facing criticisms from opposition groups and the public over the quantity of its delegation to the United Nations climate change conference (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With 600 representatives, Uganda is among the African countries with the highest number of delegates at the conference. According to a local media organisation, up to 375 of the delegates are bureaucrats, contrasting with the government’s commitment to run an austerity budget and cap foreign travel. Uganda is battling revenue constraints, a scenario that has forced public spending cuts.…

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2025, 2027 AFCON: CAF names hosts

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
AFCON CUP

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has named Morocco hosts for the 2025 AFCON, while a joint bid from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania got the nod for the 2027 AFCON. Morocco won the hosting right by garnering 22 votes, after Algeria, Zambia and a joint bid by Nigeria/Benin Republic withdrew before the voting. At their voting at the Cairo Marriott Hotel in Egypt on Wednesday, the Executive Committee of CAF announced the North Africans and East Africans as hosts for the 2025, 2027 editions respectively A joint bid by Nigeria…

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AFCON 2021: Mukansanga makes history, leads all-female referees

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
AFCON CUP

Rwandan–born referee, Salima Rhadia Mukansanga, will make history when she becomes the first woman to referee a match at the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) on Tuesday. A statement on the CAF official website said Mukansanga, 35, will take charge of the group stage match between Zimbabwe and Guinea on Tuesday at 17:00 local time (16:00 GMT) at Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde. She is part of the quartet selected as match officials at the match; making it the first time ever that an all-women team officiates…

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Former Ugandan child soldier awaits ICC judgment on war crimes

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Judges at the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) will on Thursday 4th February, 2021 give their verdict on whether or not a Ugandan former child soldier is liable of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Experts see it as a defining moment for the victims of a two-decade-long rebellion in northern Uganda until 2006, which made homeless over 1.9 million people and left tens of thousands of people dead. Uganda took the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel case to the ICC in December 2003, close to two years after the…

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Zambia’s founding President Kenneth Kaunda not dead – envoy

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Zambian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Solomon Jere, has refuted media reports that the country’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, is dead. The High Commissioner, who made the clarification in Abuja at a media briefing, urged people to ignore the reports which he described as “contemptuous rumours”. Kaunda, one of the leaders of the front-line States, comprising Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia, that helped in the liberation of most of Southern Africa from colonialism is 96 years-old and shall turn 97 on April 28. The High Commissioner also refuted media reports that…

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AfDB grants Uganda $0.5 million for petroleum-sector development

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Uganda have signed a grant agreement, worth US$500,000, for the financing of Uganda’s oil-sector, Micro-, Small- and Medium- Enterprises (MSMEs). The grant is geared towards boosting business linkages on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Technical Assistance project, the bank said. The project’s overall objective is to help develop capacity of local Ugandan MSMEs along the East African crude oil pipeline. This will be done by enabling them to access new market opportunities, and building linkages with larger, national, regional and…

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Ugandan hunter bags eleven years in jail for killing a mountain gorilla

Ishaku Yohanna

A man who pleaded guilty to killing a beloved mountain gorilla in a popular Ugandan national park has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The sentence is considerably less than the maximum penalty of life imprisonment for the crime. The male gorilla named Rafiki had been reported missing on June 1, and authorities with the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park announced the next day they had found the animal’s body. A gorilla advocacy group said an autopsy revealed that Rafiki appeared to have been killed by a spear. An arrest was…

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