Updated by Anastasios Gordon Sekandi updated at 12:16 EAT on Thursday August 21, 2025. The Government of Uganda has entered into a bilateral cooperation agreement with the United States of America to strengthen collaboration on migration and asylum-related matters. Under the new arrangement, Uganda will cooperate with the United States in examining protection requests from…
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Khaby Lame Appointed as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi – updated at 13:14 EAT Saturday 02 February 2025 Global content creator champions children’s rights following four-day visit to see UNICEF’s work in Senegal. DAKAR|HICGI – Global content creator Khaby Lame has been named UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. The announcement was made at an event in Senegal, Lame’s birth country, following…
AU Kampala Summit To Adopt 10-Year CAADP Strategy For Agricultural Transformation And Food Systems In Africa.
By Anastasios Gordon Sekandi, Ernest Benjamin Kivumbi and AU Press Unit. EAT 22:15. Thursday, January 09, 2025. MUNYONYO, UGANDA-Ministers of Agriculture from the African Union’s (AU) 55 member states have convened in Kampala, Uganda, for a three-day Extraordinary Summit aimed at advancing agricultural transformation and strengthening food systems across the continent. The summit, taking place…
“Failure is Not an Option – I Sense an Appetite for Agreement” UN Chief tells Global Media as COP 29 is coming to an End; Also VIDEO & PICTORIAL by Kivumbi.
By Earnest Kivumbi Benjamin updated 0358 EAT on Thursday 21st Nov 2024 Good afternoon. I have just returned from the G20 Summit in Rio. COP29 was very much on the agenda. I urged G20 leaders to instruct their ministers and negotiators to secure a new ambitious climate finance goal at COP29. And I heard leader…
Digital technology and climate action to join forces at COP29First ever Digitalisation Day, and Declaration on Green Digital Action to make history at COP – marking digital tech’s efforts to lower emissions and counter climate change
By Earnest Kivumbi Benjamin & ITU Press – updatee at 0321 EAT on Saturday 09th Nov 2024 The upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) starting Monday 11- 22nd Nov 2024 will feature a series of firsts to rally the technology industry to take on the climate emergency. Introduced by the COP Presidency, the first-ever Digitalisation…
UN to assess whether Africa’s mpox outbreak is a global emergency.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization’s head announced plans to assemble an expert panel to evaluate whether the escalating spread of the mpox virus in Africa should be classified as a global emergency. During a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that, due to the rising number of mpox cases outside…
UN impulses US to put an end on deportation flight to Haiti
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has called on the United States to stop forcibly returning Haitians to their home country, which is facing a months-long surge in gang violence and continued political instability. In a social media post on Friday, UNHCR urged US President Joe Biden’s administration “to refrain from forcibly returning Haitians who may…
UN assembly approves resolution to consider Palestine UN member state
Updated Ronald sserwadda The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced Palestine’s rights within the organisation and called for it to be accepted as a member. Palestine has had non-member observer state status since 2012, which allows some rights short of a full member. Membership can only be decided upon by the UN Security Council. The…
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