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UGANDA Seeks To Boost Wildlife Tourism As Economy Recovers From COVID

By  Atwiine  Allen    –  DIPLOMATIC  TIMES  CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA-  UGANDA  –   Uganda is seeking to boost its wildlife tourism as the East African nation recovers from the devastation caused by the COVID pandemic.  Uganda’s tourism sector was the hardest hit by the coronavirus as the

UGANDA EBOLA Death Toll Surges Past 50 With 8 School Children Dead

Man with Ebola in the Congo 2009  (Credit: microbewiki.kenyon.edu) By  Atwiine Allen   –   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES  CORESSPONDENT KAMPALA  –  UGANDA  –   There is a crisis in Uganda.  The Ebola virus is spreading rapidly in Uganda with at least 51 deaths reported as health officials struggle to

PEACEFUL KENYA ELECTION A LESSON IN DEMOCRACY FOR EAST AFRICAN COUNTRIES

William Samoei Ruto is the Fifth President of the Republic of Kenya (Source: World Trade Organization) By  Atwine  Allen   –   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES  CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA   –   UGANDA  –   Kenya’s Independent Electoral Bureau Commission (IEBC) officially declared Deputy President William Ruto of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance as

3 UN Peacekeepers, 12 Protestors Killed in DR CONGO Violence

United Nations Peacekeepers patrol Butembo in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure the security of local communities (UN Photo/Martine Perret) By Gary Raynaldo    –   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES UNITED  NATIONS  –   NEW  YORK  –  Three UN peacekeepers and 15 protestors were

FORMER UGANDA AIRLINES CEO, CORNWELL MULEYA ARRESTED

Uganda Airlines is the flag carrier of Uganda in  hub located at  Entebbe International Airport. (Source: ugandairlines.com) By  Atwine Allen   –    DIPLOMATIC TIMES   CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA,  UGANDA  –   The inspectorate Government , with the help of the Uganda police, has arrested Mr. Cornwell Muleya, the former

KENYA Hosts EAC Leaders To Deploy Troops to DR CONGO

His Excellency Uhuru KENYATTA, President of the Republic of Kenya (left standing) receives President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo at State House, in Nairobi where the leaders of East African countries  ( EAC) met on inter-Congolese Dialogue of the Nairobi process in