Government cold on aid to Uganda after theft report

Ireland has warned the Ugandan government it will not return to providing aid funding through official government systems until it has acted against those implicated in the theft of €4m worth of Irish aid.

Government cold on aid to Uganda after theft report

The warning came after the publication of an independent report into the theft of the €4m in the African country last year, which found that no action had been taken against any of the senior Ugandan government officials implicated in the fraud.

The report, by Human Rights Watch and Yale Law School’s Lowenstein Clinic, found that the theft of the Irish Aid money was just one of a number of cases in Uganda where money went missing, amid accusations of corruption.

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