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AgricultureCommodities

UN-backed Shs3.7bn initiative targets Uganda’s coffee seed system overhaul

A €850,000 UNIDO-led initiative targets Uganda’s coffee seed systems to boost yields, farmer incomes and export stability
A man in a checked shirt harvests yellow coffee cherries from a coffee plant in Uganda.
AgriculturePolitics & Policy

Uganda wins three-year seat on UN industrial development board

The board oversees implementation of the organisation's work programme and budgets, and makes recommendations on policy matters, including the appointment of the director-general
A woman harvests coffee berries in Yangambi, DR Congo
Food dietHealth

Experts say new UN declaration must protect rights of world’s poorest to nutritional benefits of milk and meat

Experts have warned that a draft UN declaration aimed at eliminating trans-fatty acids from global diets could inadvertently deny the world’s poorest people the nutritional benefits of milk and meat
A group of cows grazing in a green field during the day
Politics & Policy

The interests at the heart of Uganda’s involvement in eastern DRC

Uganda's ambiguous and often tumultuous relations with DR Congo have made headlines recently, with the UN last month accusing security officials of actively supporting the M23 rebel group
UPDF combat vehicles and soldiers cross to Burasi in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the newly installed ferry at the Haibale landing point on the Semliki River in February 2022. Presiding over the opening ceremony at the Burasi landing site in DRC, the Operation Shujja commander, Major General Kayanja Muhanga, noted that the crossing into Congo using this access route marks the beginning of the second phase of the operation. Maj. Gen. Kayanja revealed that the road from Burasi to Boga, a stretch of about 50km that was previously impassable, is being worked on jointly by both the UPDF and the FARDC (Congolese national army)."
Opinion

Kofi Annan’s mixed record at the United Nations

Kofi Annan's tenure at the United Nations, where he was the head of its peacekeeping and later Secretary General, is marked by great human tragedies as well as episodes of progress
Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, who died on 18 August 2018