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SANCTIONS: Main opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has reacted to a decision by the US government to the addition of Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) commissioner general Johnson Byabashaija on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) List.
African ministers at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai, UAE, have expressed disappointment with the slow progress regarding commitments by rich nations and big polluters to finance adaptation efforts for developing countries.
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) Commissioner General Johnson Byabashaija over allegations that he was linked to human rights abuses and violations, including rights for homosexuals.
Uganda’s health minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng has called on developed countries to consider debt relief for Global South countries like Uganda which are hardly hit by the negative effects of climate change yet they contribute less to the fueling of the climate crisis.
Uganda has sent a little over 600 delegates to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). With about 100,000 delegates registered as delegates, this year’s climate summit is the most attended in the history of summits on the issue of climate change, spanning three decades.
Uganda’s Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has delivered a statement on Uganda’s climate finance needs and measures to conserve the environment at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai.
More pledges for climate finance, including under the newly operationalized Loss and Damage Fund, as well as calls for taxes on fossils were some of issues that emerged on Day Two of COP28 in Dubai.
Climate Change Activists have welcomed the agreement on the loss and damage fund at the start of a two-week long COP28 UN summit in Dubai, but called on rich nations to do more to assist developing nations and communities to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis across the world.
Uganda’s President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has taken a swipe at the UK and US for issuing terror alert ahead of Nyege Nyege festival, an arts event he claimed was attended by ‘sinners’ (abasiisi in Runyankore-Rukiga).