Category : Diplomacy


Let’s not diminish Uganda’s G77 & China leadership

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January 30th, 2024

By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi On 21st January 2024, Uganda assumed chairmanship of the Group of 77 (G77) and China during the official opening of the Third South Summit at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The G77 is a coalition of over 130 developing countries founded to promote shared economic interests and to amplify their negotiation voice at the […]

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G77+China and a New International Economic Order (NIEO)

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January 27th, 2024

By Moshi Israel Some of the fundamental questions we should ask ourselves, we the citizens of the global south are; why we need a New International Economic Order (NIEO) and how that would look like. To answer the second part of this question precipitately; such a world would be vastly different from the current one […]

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Navigating the minefield of negative media punchlines on China-Africa relations will take forming our own opinions

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January 27th, 2024

By George Musiime As Africans, we cannot continue to be a people that turn on our own because we have outsiders urging us on to do so. We are as human, as the next human trying to help us determine our destiny. Unfortunately, to use the words of one notable Son of Africa Dr. Kaihura […]

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Non-Aligned Movement Offers us Hopes for a Multipolar World

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January 10th, 2024

By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi. The world’s bipolar power structure which had determined the security policies of the two global powers, the USA and USSR, collapsed with the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. This left America as the sole power with global dominance. I think that the inherent structure of unipolarity and the U.S.’s […]

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They Came, They Saw, They Joined: China’S Association With G77 

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January 10th, 2024

By Steven Akabwayi While at Kigezi High School Kabale, we had a teacher who was fond of making fun of students but we could find it hard to hate him because of his great sense of humor and storytelling skills that made us fall in love with history. One of the remarkable phrases I remember from […]

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China’s Example for Uganda’s Development Dilemmas

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January 8th, 2024

  By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi If you are to read only one line in this article, and merely for motivational value, it is that China reassures us of the possibility of changing the course of history. It did so. I don’t suggest we should copy and paste the Chinese model. I call that we learn […]

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Israel at the International Court of Justice: A Stern Test for the United Nations and its Institutions

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January 4th, 2024

By Marvin Hannington Kalema The year 2024 promises to be yet another interesting one if the events that transpired at the close of the past year are anything to go by. On the 29th of December 2023, the government of the Republic of South Africa formally filed a case against the state of Israel with […]

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Sudan and D.R Congo: In The Wake Of Biases By Global Actors, What Hope Has The African Union For Its Abandoned Members?

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December 26th, 2023

By Alan Collins Mpewo Africa is, without a doubt, a make of extraordinary wonders. It even gets better when persons not so well conversant with its make have to speculate of what exactly the continent really bears. And sometimes it sours into controversy as to what really means to be Africa. It is not to […]

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Not President XI Jinping but Joe Biden is a Dictator

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November 20th, 2023

By Allawi Ssemanda. Last week, just hours after the U.S President Joe Biden met with his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping in San Francisco. Biden described this meeting as “some of the most productive” talks before he announced on his X account resumption of military-to-military communications. However, while responding to a question from a CNN […]

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China-Africa Joint Development: Beyond Slogans

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November 13th, 2023

By Moshi Israel To understand the drive behind the concept of China-Africa joint development, one needs to know exactly what China wants from Africa and what Africa wants from its relationship with China. The cooperation between Africa and China aims to be a symbiotic relationship where benefits are shared fairly and at times equally. The […]

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