Tag Archives: Great Lakes

Experts say the region’s mineral certification mechanism remains patchy, under-implemented, and hindered by political and regulatory gaps ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Fourteen years since 12 governments in the Great Lakes region unanimously agreed to create a foolproof international system for certifying and auditing minerals that have been blamed for fomenting …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian weather authorities on Tuesday issued an alert over disruption of marine activities caused by strong winds and large waves in three lakes, the authorities said in a statement. The Tanzania Meteorological Authority said in its five-day forecast that strong winds reaching 40 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | Women from the Great Lakes region have held an inception meeting on ‘Women leading on peace and Justice ‘organised by ActionAid Australia and ActionAid International Uganda. The meeting held 9th to 12th July at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Kampala, was held to discuss …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Regional Oversight Mechanism of Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework has not worked well to deal with the growing security threats in the great lakes region, President Yoweri Museveni has said. Museveni says that the imported pseudo ideology of exclusion and the sectarian way of handling …

Unreported cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) are on the rise in Uganda, a trend that Minister for General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister Mary Karooro-Okurut says the country needs to halt. Making reference to statistics from The 2011 Uganda Police Force Report she said, …

  Ambassador Zachary Muburi-Muita, Kenya’s candidate for the post of Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), has been endorsed by the heads of state. Confirmation of a new chief was one of several  ICGLR decisions taken their 6th Ordinary Heads of State and Government …

President Yoweri Museveni is in Luanda, Angola for the 6th Ordinary Heads of State and Government Summit of The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). The Summit is being held under the theme “Accelerating the effective implementation of the Pact and its Protocols for a more democratic and stable …

Civil Society in the Great Lakes region has called for the accelerated implementation of the ICGLR Kampala Declaration on sexual and gender based Violence The Kampala Declaration Conference is on in Kampala May 25-27. It seeks to coordinate efforts of regional security while simultaneously addressing the difficult and deep rooted …

By Sarah Namulondo A total of 10 countries in the Great Lakes Region including (Angola, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and Burundi) have resolved to form a joint force of 4,000 troops to contain the insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Defence …