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Uganda in pool C as draws for safari sevens are held

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Uganda rugby 7s in action in 2018 USA tournament

After a one-year absence, the rugby Safari 7s tournament returns in Kenya with twelve teams confirmed to participate in the two day event.

Uganda has been placed in group C alongside Portugal, Morans and Menengai Cream Homeboyz.
World Series core team Spain are among 12 teams that have confirmed participation in this year’s Safari Sevens. Spain, which finished 11th in the 2017/18 Sevens Series season, will be joined by Iberian neighbours Portugal, a former World Rugby Sevens Series core team.

Hosts Kenya will be represented by National Sevens Series champions Homeboyz, Shujaa and Morans.
The other teams heading to Nairobi include British sides Apache Sevens, Red Wailers and Samurai Sevens, South African side Cobras, Namibia and Burkina Faso, who are making their first appearance.

Kenya’s Shujaa are the defernding champions and have been grouped in Pool A alongside 2016 Africa Men’s Sevens silver medalists Namibia, United Kingdom’s Apache and Kenyan side Stanbic Mwamba who finished second overall at the Kenyan Stanbic Bank National Sevens Circuit in September.

The tournament will run from 10th to 11th November 1018 at the RFUEA Ground in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Safari Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held in Nairobi, Kenya. The competition is open to international representative sides, professional and amateur clubs, invitational teams, university and school teams.

Pools:
Pool A: Shujaa, Namibia, Apache, Stanbic Mwamba
Pool B: Spain, Samurai, Red Wailers, Emerging Uganda
Pool C: Portugal, Uganda, Morans, Menengai Cream Homeboyz

Uganda fixtures on Saturday, 10 November 2018:
Uganda v Morans: 10.44am
Uganda v Menengai Cream Homeboyz: 1.44pm
Portugal v Uganda: 5.06pm

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Uganda concludes verification exercise of all refugees

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Geoffery Serugo
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Minister Onek reading the findings at Media Centre.

Uganda has concluded a comprehensive exercise of verify the identities of all refugees and asylum-seekers in the country.

With support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, verification exercise was contacted in various refugee host communities in the country peddled at confirming the number of refugees and asylum-seekers registered in Uganda and enhancing the quality of data and improving assistance management and the overall support for refugees

According to the Minister of Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Hillary Onek said the number of refugees and asylum-seekers registered by the government as of the March 1, 2018 was 1,444,856 individuals.

He said, by the end of the verification exercise 1,092,213 individuals had been verified as present representing 76 per cent of the initial target.

“Since March this year, 62,139 new arrivals mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan were registered, bringing the active registered population in Uganda to 1,154,352 individuals as of end of October. These objectives were achieved through the completion of the verification exercise and the roll out of the advanced biometric registration system,” he said.

He said, government of Uganda has one of the most progressive refugee policies, allowing refugees and asylum-seekers to live in gazette refugee settlements and exercise freedom of movement and settlement within the country.

“Government has provided a grace period of two months within which any registered refugee and asylum-seeker who missed the exercise, can approach OPM for verification. Taking this into consideration, the above verification numbers are preliminary. A more detailed analysis will be undertaken after the grace period,”

He said the difference between the initial verification target stands at 352,643 individuals, 255,490 individuals were verified as inactive and closed for the following reasons:

a) 158,533 individuals whose whereabouts are unknown as reported by family members;

b) 34,174 were reported by their families to have returned to their countries of origin;

c) 9,481 were identified to have registered more than once; e) 3,931 were reported deceased;

f) 1,489 were closed as they were Ugandan nationals; and (g) a verification exercise by OPM in April 2018 confirmed the urban refugee population to be 55,812.

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AfDB, partners launch first-ever Co-Guarantee Platform

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Officials at the launch.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and its partners have created the Co-Guarantee Platform for Africa, an innovative and collective de-risking instrument, to address the perceived high risk across the continent and the lack of capacity of traditional lenders to provide risk mitigation products for projects.

The platform is intended to increase the volume of insurance and guarantee solutions available to project sponsors and their bankers in a market-responsible manner. The objective is to mobilize greater amounts of investment that would otherwise not take place in the region in the absence of affordable risk mitigation products.

The Platform is expected to enhance the relevance of the respective institutions’ instruments in the region by implementing joint risk mitigation transactions.

Speaking about the Platform, Akinwunmi Adesina, President of the AfDB Group said, “There are many guarantee providers that can offer various types of credit enhancement and risk mitigation instruments in Africa, but cooperation among them has been either non-existent or on an ad-hoc basis. Hence the need for a more formal collaboration among guarantee providers to maximize the use of their products in Africa.

He said the four initial partners are financial institutions with strong experience operating on the continent, keen to participate in order to cooperate and create synergies with other development and commercial institutions in an effective and market-responsive manner. “The platform is open to more participants including official development institutions and the private sector,” he said.

The initiative will have a global outreach and aim at crowding in reluctant risk mitigation and credit enhancement providers across the world to make more projects happen in Africa- on more affordable terms for both African and foreign investors and lenders alike.

Dr. Bandar M. H. Hajjar, the President of the Islamic Development Bank Group, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment & Export Credit (ICIEC), said that ICIEC, as a multilateral institution has a strong footprint in Africa with 23 member countries from within the continent, and has been actively mobilizing insurance and reinsurance capacity from the international market for Africa for the last 25 years.

He said ICIEC intends to avail its services, expertise and network to cooperate with the participants of the Co-Guarantee Platform, in order to structure collectively innovative risk mitigation solutions that will help to facilitate and mobilize funding capacity for medium and long tenor projects in Africa.

George Otieno, Chief Executive Officer of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) said, “We welcome this initiative that was first suggested by the African Development Bank during the second meeting of the Abidjan Union held in 2017. As the membership of African states in ATI grows – in part thanks to the financial assistance of the African Development Bank – we believe that no single institution alone can provide the amount of risk mitigation required to catalyze Africa’s enormous infrastructure requirements”.

He said that while ATI already works closely with the private insurance market, the recent insurance transaction concluded among the Bank, ATI and the private reinsurance market to insure a portfolio of the Bank’s non-sovereign financial sector loans in Africa, demonstrates the powerful impact cooperation among institutions can have on bettering the availability and terms and conditions of insurance in the region.

Philippe Valahu, CEO, Private Infrastructure Development Group, said: “This initiative enables us to collaborate with institutions that share a similar vision as us; not only by recognising the deployment of capital and investment on the continent but, most importantly, by enabling local capital markets through risk mitigation solutions.”

He said the joint capacity, as created through the initiative, would result in more efficient information sharing, a better overview of risk across the continent and mobilisation of greater guarantee capacity.

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Uganda offers to host the 64th CPC next year

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George Mangula
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Speaker of Parliament of Uganda Rebecca Kadaga (L) and other delegates at CPA Executive Meeting in London.

Uganda will for the second time host the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in September 2019, according to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Secretariat.

The conference will be hosted in Kampala under the theme: ‘Adaption, Engagement and Evolution in a rapidly changing Commonwealth’. The country first hosted the conference in 1967.

The conference is organised each year by the CPA but for this year it is been skipped. The 2017 CPC was held in Bangladesh. While Uganda’s neighbours Kenya and Tanzania have also in the past hosted the conference, with Kenya hosting it in 1954, 1983, 2010 while Tanzania were hosts in 2009.

However, the CPA Executive Meeting being attended in London by Speakers from Uganda Cameroon, Malta, Kenya, Lesotho, Zambezi among others has offered Uganda chance to host the 2019 conference. The Speaker of Parliament Uganda has been appointed President Designate 2018 to 2019.

During the CPC global political issues and developments in the parliamentary system are analysed in conference debates among leading parliamentarians representing parliaments and legislatures throughout the commonwealth.

The plenary conferences were biennial from 1948 to 1959 and annual since 1961. A summary of the main views expressed in the conference debates is sent to members, governments and international agencies.

The conference period also encompasses meetings of the General Assembly, the Executive Committee, small branches members, the commonwealth parliamentarians and meetings of Parliamentary Clerks and Secretaries (SOCATT).

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NRM not shaken by opposition candidates in Busia

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Trevor S Baleke
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The ruling party – National Resistance Movement (NRM) is not shaken by the different statements from the opposition leaders ahead of the polls for Busia district chairperson slated for November 28, the Deputy Secretary General, Richard Todwong has said.

Todwong made the remarks this Wednesday afternoon while reacting to earlier statements from opposition leaders as put before him by members of the press.

He confidently said, “We are here to reclaim our seat. We have contested with some of those nominated and defeated them before. We are not shaken”. He added, “We are used to living with them despite their statements”.

Speaking at a public rally later, Todwong confessed there were some few challenges to be resolved before we go to polls.

Campaign strategy

Todwong said the Party will conduct village based campaigns where every party leader will be deployed to offer a service towards the targeted victory.

He further disclosed that the planned village meetings will help the party audit its membership in Busia.

Todwong also who has been camped in Busia for nearly a week now said the opposition was spreading a lot of propaganda intended to cause divisions within the NRM camp.

He to unpack such propaganda and help the party membership understand how ‘the enemies’ are working against NRM.

Its not Ogutu but NRM

Todwong commended all those who had showed interest in the same seat but later opted out in favour of Ogutu. He emphasized that the campaigns were not about Ogutu as an individual but NRM as a party.

“Whoever fights Ogutu is directly fighting NRM”, he said. He urged the residents here to forgive, reconcile and live harmoniously

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16 categories announced for the 2018 FUFA Awards contest

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Our Reporter
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FUFA president eng. Magogo

The 4th edition of the Airtel FUFA Awards have been officially launched today at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel by Uganda’s football governing body.

In attendance at the launch was the FUFA President Eng. Moses Magogo, chairman of the Airtel FUFA Awards organizing committee Rogers Byamukama, Uganda Premier League’s Board member David Serebe, sponsors and partners’ representatives, event organisers Kibo Media as well as the media.

Eng. Moses Magogo told the media in attendance, “The Federation continues to recognize individual and team excellence. The FUFA Awards are aimed at honoring excellence for Ugandan footballers annually that help in raising the bar. Some of the gallant past winners are now plying their trade outside Uganda like Fazila Ikwaput, Faruku Miya and Muhammed Shaban while Muzamiru Mutyaba is playing in the CAF Champions League with KCCA Football Club.”

“I will end by urging all Ugandans to turn up in huge numbers on the 17th November 2018 at Mandela National Stadium when Uganda Cranes plays Cape Verde in the AFCON 2019 qualifiers. History awaits us as we fight to qualify for AFCON back to back.” the FUFA President added.

The final list for the nominees for the male and female Most Valuable players (MVP’s) has been generated by a panel of experts – the 16 coaches in the Uganda Premier League and FUFA Women Elite league.
There are 16 categories for the awards in total, four of which will involve the general public through SMS to choose their best.

This year’s awards ceremony will take place on 7th December 2018 at the Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala.

The 16 categories are:
1 – Airtel FUFA Male Player of the year 2018: Allan Okello (KCCA FC), Moses Waiswa (Vipers SC), Vianne Sekajugo (Onduparaka FC)
2- Airtel FUFA Female Player of the year: Tracy Jones Akiror (Kawempe Muslim Ladies FC), Ruth Aturo (UCU Lady Cardinals FC), Shadia Nankya (Uganda Martyrs High School, Lubaga)
3 – FUFA Upcoming Talent (FUFA Juniors League U-19)
4 – FUFA Most Promising Player Award
5 – FUFA Coach of the Year
6 – FUFA Best XI
7 – FUFA Presidential Award
8 – FUFA Fair-play Award
9 – FUFA Individual Fair-play Award
10 – FUFA Referee of the Year
11 – FUFA Upcoming Referee of the year
12 – FUFA Beach Soccer player of the year
13 – Fans’ Favourite Ugandan player of the year
14 – Fans’ Favourite Ugandan player (Foreign based)
15 – Fan of the Year award
16 – MVP (Big League)

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Beware of quack dentists in town-UDA warns public

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Geoffery Serugo
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Dentists attending to a patient.

The Uganda Dental Association (UDA) has come out to warn the Ugandan public to be alert, saying a number of fake dentists exist in this kind of medical field.

Dr Ayub Twaha, the President of UDA while addressing the media in Kampala on Wednesday intimated there is an increase in cases of impersonating health professionals including dental surgeons and urged the public to watch out for the impersonators.

“All our members are registered by the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council, and it’s a requirement by law that each doctor displays his/her annual practice licence clearly wherever they work,” Dr. Twaha said.

The doctor urged the public to desist from getting dental services from facilities that don’t have identifications of their doctors and do not display valid practicing licences. “We will soon produce a portal through which each member of the public can crosscheck if a doctor working on them is registered and licensed to practice,” he said.

He went ahead to appeal to government to invest in oral health and research and that all dental health facilities move away from tooth extraction service to restoring hope and smiles in their patients. He urged dentists to avoid rudeness as they serve and instead offer quality services.

The doctor further urged the public to be careful with traditional method of removing ‘false teeth’ from children (dental tissue mutilation), saying if done badly has the potential to disorganize a person’s dental formula.

He also urged expectant mothers to seek dental care, saying that there is nothing wrong with it. There has been a misconception that expectant mothers should seek dental care, interestingly sometimes from midwives and medical doctors,” he said, adding that expectant mothers are required to visit dental clinics two times during their pregnancy.

He said improving and maintaining optimal oral health requires one to; brush teeth at least twice a day, youth good tooth brush and fluoride paste, reduce the sugar intake in all its forms, eat lots of fruits and minerals as well as visiting dentists.

Dr. Twaha gave his views as UDA prepares for its AGM and Scientific Conference from November 8-10, 2018. The event will be held under the theme: “Dentistry: Past, Present and Future”. UDA has had its membership grow from four in 1960s to 320 today, serving the Ugandan population.

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Dfcu top managers in panic as they prepare to face Cosase

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Mr. Jimmy Mugerwa, the board chairman of Dfcu bank who is accused by some shareholders for the bank's poor management.

There is panic at Dfcu Bank as parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) begins quizzing Bank of Uganda (BoU) top officials on the liquidation and sale of seven commercial banks against the wishes of owners.

Cosase began its inquiry into BoU last Thursday demanding that officials present all documents related liquidation and sale of Teefe Bank, International Credit Bank Limited, Greenland Bank, The Cooperative Bank, National Bank of Commerce, Global Trust Bank and Crane Bank Limited (CBL).

BoU Governor Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile pledged to avail all the required documents this week for the Members of Parliament to study so they can ask right questions.

BoU transferred Global Trust Bank and CBL to Dfcu Bank and the Auditor General (AG) John Muwanga in his special audit report of BoU on defunct banks, published on August 27, 2018, says that the transactions had irregularities of which BoU has to explain, meaning Dfcu Bank cannot be exempted as a purchaser.

Mr. Muwanga in his report that Cosase intends to use to pin the parties notes:

“I observed that there were no documented guidelines/regulation or policies in place for the identification of the purchasers of the 3 defunct banks (GTB, NBC and CBL) closed using the purchase and assumption arrangement. There were also no guidelines to determine the procedures to be adopted by the Central Bank in the sale/transfer of assets and liabilities of the defunct banks to the identified purchaser. In the absence of guidelines, I could not establish the basis used to select the purchaser and determining the values of assets and liabilities transferred by BoU to the purchaser”.

Adding “I noted that BoU did not carry out a requisite valuation of assets and liabilities of the three defunct banks (GTB. NBC and CBL) resolved using the purchase and assumption arrangement at the time of signing the P&A. In absence of the valuation and or documented evaluation of alternatives and assumptions used, I could not establish how the terms for the transfer of assets and liabilities in the P&A were determined.” “Negotiation minutes detailing the evaluation of alternatives and assumptions for the sale of GTB assets were not provided and as such I could not determine the basis for transferring assets at a discount”, says Muwanga.

The statements above are a thorn in the flesh of Dfcu Bank top executives to the extent that Juma Kisaame, the Managing Director, Jimmy Mugerwa, the Chairman Board of Directors and others, are reportedly doing everything possible to save themselves from the MPs’ impending interrogation. It was made worse by revelations that some shareholders had more less objected to the CBL deal and according to reports from Dfcu, these very shareholders are cagey about the inquiry by parliament as they fear it is likely to soil their reputation.

Our sources within Dfcu say the two men are looking for any means that they can use to frustrate the inquiry by Cosase.

They also say that Kisaame, Mugerwa and other Board members recently held a secret extra ordinary meeting during which they came up with a plan to manipulate facts that can save them should they be required to appear before Cosase.

The Bank’s shareholders including Arise B.V. and Britain’s CDC Group are expected to appear before Cosase as well even though they did not support the acquisition of Crane Bank, the reason why they were involved in disagreements recently with CDC announcing it wanted to exit by way of selling its shares within or looking for external buyers.

According to insiders, Kisaame and Mugerwa want to convince other board members and shareholders to be on the same page when they appear before Cosase, such that their statement rhymes with the one BoU officials made to Cosase last week. That among others includes harmonizing minutes of the meetings they held especially on the purchase of CBL.

Cosase members sent away the BoU officials and instructed them to return this week with the necessary documents. After the appearance of BoU officials before Cosase, next will be Dfcu Bank officials.

The insiders also intimated that Kisaame and Mugerwa are tight business friends, who have been sharing percentages and commissions off the deals they cut for a long time.

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2019 AFCON qualifiers: Cape Verde name squad to face Cranes, referees appointed

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Uganda playing against Cape Verde in Praia last year.

Uganda Cranes return to action on 16th November 2018 against Cape Verde at the Mandela National Stadium, Namboole in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Cranes will need just one point to confirm their place in the most prestigious continental tournament while The Crioulos will need three points to keep their hopes of qualification alive.

The Cape Verde national team manager Rui Aguas has named their 24-man squad to travel to Kampala for the clash.

The squad is mainly dominated by foreign based players with only two locally based players.

The match will be officiated by Tunisian officials. Youssef Essrayri will be the center referee, while his assistants will be Yamen Malloulchi and Jridi Faouzi as the first and second respectively.

Uganda leads group L with ten points ahead of Tanzania on five, Cape Verde on four points and Lesotho on two points.

In the other group game fixture, Lesotho will host Tanzania at the Setosoto stadium in Maseru city.

Uganda’s last game in group L will be away against Tanzania.

Cameroon (hosts), Senegal, Madagascar, Tunisia and Egypt are the only five countries to confirm their places at the tournament.

The 2019 AFCON tournament will be hosted in Cameroon. The competition will be held in June and July 2019 to move it from January/February for the first time.

It will also be the first Africa Cup of Nations expanded from 16 to 24 teams.

Cape Verde squad

Goal keepers: Vozinha (AEL Limassol, Cyprus), Thierry Graça (Estoril, Portugal) and Elber Evora (Feyenoord, Netherlands)

Defenders: Carlos Ponck (CD Aves, Portugal), Nivaldo Santos (Concordia, Romania), Stopira (MOL Vidi, Hungary), Tiago Almeida (Academico Viseu, Portugal), Gege (Al Feiha, Saudi Arabia), Fernando Varela (PAOK, Greece) and Jeffrey Fortes (Excelsior, Netherlands)

Midfielders: Bruno Leite (FK Haugesund, Norway), Danilson da Cruz (Nancy Lorraine, France) Emerson (Académica da Praia, Cape Verde), Nuno Rocha (Universitatea Craiova, Romania), Babanco (Feirense, Portugal) and Helder Tavares (Tondela, Portugal)

Strikers: Platini (Poli Iasi, Romania), Ryan Mendes (Al Sharjah, United Arab Emirates), Garry Rodrigues (Galatasaray, Turkey), Julio Tavares (Dijon, France), Papalele (Mindelense, Cape Verde), Djaniny (Al Ahli SC, Saudi Arabia), Heldon (Al Taawon, Saudi Arabia), Ricardo Gomes (Partizan Belgrade, Serbia) and Nuno da Costa (Strasbourg, Franc

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Regional conference on legal aid underway in Nairobi

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Some of participants at conference

The East African Legal Aid Regional Network Conference organized by the East African Committee on Judicial Education (EAJEC), International Development Law Organization (IDLO), National Legal Aid Service (NLAS), and the Paralegal Support Network (PASUNE) is underway at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.

Among the items on the agenda are to enhance established links between civil society legal aid providers including paralegals, NGOs and state justice actors in the East Africa region as well as establishing additional measures that can ensure that the expertise of non-state actors is shared with other legal aid providers, including employees of state-run legal aid schemes and members of the legal profession.

In addition, the conference is considering whether a referral system can be developed in cooperation with non-state actors, in which some of the cases received by paralegals and NGOs can be referred to lawyers and jurists active in the field of legal aid.

The four-day conference is being coordinated through panel discussions with plenary sessions; guided discussions facilitated by experts to help identify and expose different views and levels of appreciation of thematic issues; breakout sessions on thematic areas; and informal/Side events to foster policy dialogue.

The expected outputs of the conference will include an Agreement on a mechanism to monitor and report on progress on enhancement of Access to Justice through both formal and informal Legal Aid systems in East Africa; an agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding to guide the establishment of the East Africa Regional Legal Aid Network as well as a conference report that will include an outcome document with recommendations agreed by formal and informal Justice actors on the development of state funded legal aid systems in their respective jurisdictions.

The conference is being attended by 50 participants drawn from a pool of policy makers, legal aid practitioners including representatives of the respective Ministries of Justice, the Judiciary Training Institutes in the region, the EAC Secretariat, Regional Bar Associations, Offices of Public Prosecution, Pro bono Lawyers, the East Africa Law Society, relevant UN agencies and other Development Partners.

In addition, Paralegal support networks, members of the Civil Society, law schools in Universities that operate legal aid clinics, Faith Based and Community Based Organizations from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia and South Sudan are also in attendance.

The conference is a follow-on to previous initiatives that lay the foundation for improved Access to Justice in the East Africa region through enhanced Legal Aid service provision.

In commitment to the advancement of the rule of law in Africa, IDLO and the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania co-hosted a pan-African Conference in Dar es Salaam under the theme “Achieving The 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063: The Rule of Law as a Driver of Africa’s Sustainable Development,” which took place on 1st and 2nd June 2016. The Dar es Salaam Conference concluded with concrete suggestions for future activities, including (a) the pressing need to improve access to justice; and (b) the need to engage with informal and community justice systems as one of the main means of accessing justice in Africa. It identified legal aid as a critical component in the promotion of access to justice.

In addition, the conference builds on the outcomes of the 2nd International Conference on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems held in Argentina in November 2016. The Argentina conference deliberated on effective strategies to improve access to justice consistent with the United Nations Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice

Systems (UN Principles and Guidelines), adopted by the General Assembly in resolution 67/187. The conference identified various avenues for the promotion of legal aid, including (a) the establishment of national, regional and international specialized networks of legal aid providers; (b) the exchange of information; and (c) the sharing of international best practices and expertise, as called for in May 2016 through resolution 25/2 of the 25th session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ).

The conference is intended to create a regional platform for the engagement of state and non-state agencies involved in legal aid, and to encourage them to build linkages between their regional networks and the formal justice systems with a view of enhancing access to justice in Africa.

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