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Uganda is among the 35 countries that abstained in the United Nations General Assembly vote to condemn Russia’s operations in Ukraine. The Pearl of Africa remained neutral as 141 out of the 193 member states voted to oppose Russia’s…

The African Peace and Security Council adopted a proposal to deploy a joint AU-UN force to replace AMISOM by the end of this year. Following a meeting last week, the Council said that it was adopting the AU-UN Multidimensional…

The contest between Kenya and Djibouti will head to the second round of voting Thursday after the first phase saw Nairobi’s victory insufficient to win the UN Security Council seat. In the first round, Nairobi scored 113 votes against…

African envoys to the United Nations in New York have endorsed Uganda as the next chair of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) from 2022 to 2025. NAM is a 120-member group covering 55 percent of the world's population, making it the second…

The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda The Most Rev Stanley Ntagali has said that greed, corruption, entitlement and violence can only be driven out of Ugandans’ hearts and communities by inviting Jesus into their hearts. Rt Rev Ntagali…

The Ambassador of Japan to Uganda H.E Kameda Kazuaki has today officially opened a course in Heavy Engineering Equipment operations for UPDF at the Uganda Rapid Deployment Capability Centre(URDCC) in Jinja. The course is aimed at…

The Ugandan government has repatriated 57 M23 ex-combatants to the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC. The ex-combatants departed Entebbe Airport aboard a UN military aircraft on Tuesday. The ex-combatants are part of a larger group of M23…

Somalia’s government has ordered the top United Nations official in the country to leave, accusing him of interfering with national sovereignty days after he raised concerns about the actions of U.N.-supported Somali security forces. The…

The security situation in South Sudan has significantly improved since the recently signed peace deal between the opposing parties in the country’s civil war, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, head of UN Peacekeeping (DPKO), told the Security…

What does a small spat in the Security Council over the Central African Republic, or CAR, tell us about the state of major power relations? Last week, the council was unable to agree on the terms of a six-month extension to the…