Official portraits of Ambassador Olara Otunnu, the esteemed nominee from the Government of Uganda for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
All photos are courtesy of the Uganda Media Centre.
View the gallery here: https://t.co/skAW8LXAyC
By throwing vereran diplomat Olara Otunnu so late into the race for UN Sec-Gen, Uganda President surely isn’t expecting he will win. And him losing might be the objective. Otunnu’s profile has shot up dramatically from recent obscurity. Now M7 can say, “even in defeat, Otunnu has shown he has the potential to be a global leader. Let us give him late Moses Ali’s Deputy Prime Minister job”, which might be the real goal of this play. Some speculate they could use him to steal back the leadership of UPC from Jimmy Akena Obote, who has turned rebellious. It would be a fool’s errand, I think, but whatever the case, Otunnu will be perched on some high Ugandan political table after this saga.
“There is a case from the Co-operative Marketing Board that started in 1992 and reached the Supreme Court recently. The time of the dispute was before some of the justices were even in practice. Do you know that a court considering a conviction after 15 years of waiting for appeal may already be automatically biased toward upholding it? Justice delayed is not just justice denied. It may be justice corrupted.”
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A los 40 años, Vozinha pasó de ser la gran historia del Mundial a firmar el mejor contrato de su carrera con Colo Colo.
El portero de Cabo Verde ganará 11 veces más que en su anterior club, el Chaves de Portugal.
Vozinha se vistió de gala y lloró a mares. Maravillosa historia.
Egypt 🇪🇬 gave its national football team a triumphant reception after their strong showing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The Pharaohs advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time in the nation’s history before being knocked out by Argentina in a closely contested game.
Thousands of supporters gathered at El Alamein International Airport to greet the team with flags and enthusiastic cheers.
An open-top bus parade was also held to honour the players, including captain Mohamed Salah.
The squad’s historic achievement received widespread acclaim and was celebrated as a proud moment for Egyptian football.
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OVERHEARD: “Namibia’s President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is slashing her country’s debts, having wielded the axe to chop Cabinet from 21 to 14 while genuinely tackling corruption. Meanwhile, some of her regional peers are rubber-stamping nearly 90 ministers, sinking deeper into debt, and performing the usual hollow dance of "fighting corruption." Me thinks Namibia should lend her on a rotational basis to struggling African economies, no?
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An Ebola ‘Conspiracy’?: Why is Uganda Blacklisted While DR Congo Where It Originated Gets a Pass?
It’s very difficult to get agreement on anything in politically polarised Uganda, but there is a rare growing consensus in the country that a "conspiracy" at play against it regarding the latest Ebola outbreak.
As is often the case, the virus originated in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where 452 confirmed cases, 1,000 suspected cases, and 82 deaths have been recorded - before spilling over into Uganda.
Uganda has registered 15 cases and just ONE (1) death, a 59-year-old Congolese man who had come into the country from the DRC.
This is where it gets strange. Despite this disparity, western governments have issued over a dozen strict travel advisories specifically targeting Uganda, far eclipsing those levied against the DRC, and even suspension of visas!!!. This has prompted Ugandan politicians and social media users to rail against them and sections of international media like Al Jazeera for "bundling Uganda with Congo" and treating the two as a single entity.
The situation in Kenya might throw some light on the Uganda case. Protests erupted in Nanyuki, in the mountainous central region of the country, over a proposed US Ebola quarantine facility at Laikipia Air Base. This backdrop lends some credence to a disclosure from an authoritative Nairobi-based journalist who said: "We hear the US initially approached Uganda, which possesses the continent’s finest technical expertise on Ebola. Kampala refused, stating, 'We are too busy managing the spillover from Congo'."
If Kampala did indeed rebuff Washington, it is confounding given the Ugandan government’s long history of subservience to US interests. Yet, it might explain why conspiracy theories are thriving. Kampala likely suspects it is being internationally penalised for refusing to fall in line and serve as an Ebola "leper colony".
What is clear is how anomalous it is for a nation with minor spillover cases to be treated as the primary medical pariah.