Government to withdraw €2m in aid from Uganda

THE Government is to withdraw €2 million in aid from Uganda over the failure of the country’s leadership to implement political reform.

The move, which will reduce Ireland’s aid budget to the East African nation to €30m this year, follows continued concern that Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, is preparing to change the constitution to allow him stand for a third term.

Continued intimidation and harassment of opposition parties in the lead up to Uganda’s first multi-party elections early next year is also a matter of increasing concern among the international donor community.