Uganda gears up for unveiling of AU’s 10-year strategic plan to up food production
The summit according to the commissioner which is organised by the African Union and the republic of Uganda will commence in three weeks is a huge milestone as it will see the union’s heads of state and government consider and adopt the (2026-2035) CAADP strategic plan
Food security: African Union working on long term plan to raise cropland, cut further imports
A statement issued at the Pre-African Union Extra-Ordinary Summit on Post-Malabo CAADP Agenda media briefing by Maj-Gen David Kasura-Kyomukama, cites statistics that show Africa spends $100 billion – mainly on cereals – while $16 billion goes to fat and oil imports.
Passenger plane flying to Russia from Azerbaijan crashes in Kazakhstan, many feared dead
Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, but had been forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau.
Election violence erupts in Mozambique after election court ruling, at least 21 killed
Footage circulating on various social media platforms showed protesters burning and looting shops in the capital Maputo and the city of Beira, where some city officials were reported to have fled the city.
Attack on Haiti’s largest hospital raises fresh questions over UN delay in reinforcing Kenyan-led mission
A spokesperson for the mission, led by Kenya, said after shooting began that its personnel had not been invited to the
conference and it had sent in reinforcements. The national police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Why critical thinking and alternative analysis pursued by Ugandan academics are key to questioning existing orthodoxies in East Africa
At the end 2017 the staff of the CSGMC delivered a critical paper on Transboundary Water Governance for Inclusive Development and Environmental Sustainability in the Nile Basin at the first Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) Summit. The summit, organised by the NBD, was held Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Uganda on November 29-30, 2017.
