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Navi Pillay, in a burgundy jacket and glasses, speaks at a lectern and gestures with one hand, in front of banners for the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability.

Navi Pillay’s Nobel prize is a vote of confidence in international law

Navi Pillay, the first South African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, took the lessons of apartheid to Rwanda, the ICC and the UN, writes Frans Viljoen

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Irene Muloni, minister for energy and minerals development (right), AGR Business Development Manager Alphonse Katerebe (centre) and two unidentified people stand near gold flakes and ingots at the African Gold Refinery in Entebbe on 20 February 2017. Alain Goetz, the Belgian owner of the refinery, stands next to Mr Museveni, and is partially obscured from view. The refinery was officially launched on 20 February 2017, and is Uganda's first official gold refinery. Uganda's locally mined gold is negligible, but the country is a transit point for gold exports from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, which has large reserves, and Tanzania, one of Africa's largest gold producers.

Thaba Investments

Nearly half of Uganda’s gold exports come from firm Bloomberg links to sanctioned network

Bloomberg says Thaba, behind nearly half of Uganda's gold exports, shares suppliers with a sanctioned refinery, a claim Thaba and Alain Goetz deny

Uganda-US relations

Uganda joins Trump administration’s Trade over Aid talks in New York

What Washington's Trade over Aid initiative asks of Uganda, and why Kampala's delegation is at Friday's high-level talks in New York

Thomas Tayebwa chairs a meeting at the head of a boardroom table; to his side sit MEPs Anna Strolenberg, nearest him, and Tineke Strik, with Ugandan officials opposite

Uganda’s refugee plan is a third funded as Kampala seeks EU help

Humanitarian funding to Uganda fell from $357.2mn in 2024 to $158.6mn in 2025, and this year's refugee plan has already passed that total

A man in a checked shirt harvests yellow coffee cherries from a coffee plant in Uganda.

Supply chains

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 woman harvests coffee berries in Yangambi, DR Congo

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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 group of cows grazing in a green field during the day

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

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)."

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

Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, who died on 18 August 2018

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

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