NAM Summit: Delegates outline challenges affecting member states

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KAMPALA - Several Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) delegates have raised a number of challenges that member states are grappling with, which need urgent attention. 

Challenges including food insecurity, armed conflict, pandemics, climate change, and terrorism topped the list.

Uganda’s foreign affairs minister Gen. Jeje Odongo said NAM member states should focus on finding solutions to the perennial and persistent global problems. 

Vice President Maj (Rtd) Jessica Alupo Epel arrives for the official opening of the ministerial meeting of the 19th NAM Summit at Munyonyo Convention Centre in Kampala on Wednesday on her right is Uganda’s foreign affairs minister Gen. Jeje Odongo. (All Photos by Eddie Ssejjoba)

Odongo said: “Today, we are faced with several challenges, including armed conflicts in different parts of the world, food insecurity, migration, unemployment, pandemics, climate change, and terrorism that we need to focus on.” 

The minister was opening the meeting of senior officials of the 19th NAM Summit of Heads of State and Government at Munyonyo Convention Centre in Kampala. 

The summit, which started on Monday, January 15, 2024, will run up to January 20. 

Vice President Maj (Rtd) Jessica Alupo Epel (2nd L) presided over the ministerial meeting of the 19th NAM Summit at Munyonyo Convention Centre in Kampala on Wednesday.

The senior officials’ meeting preceded the ministerial session and that of the heads of NAM member states slated for today. 

The theme of this year’s summit is Deepening Co-operation for Shared Global Affluence. 

“We recognise challenges in financing for development and the issue of debt burden that paints a depressing global economic outlook. It is, therefore, crucial for us to address existing, new, and emerging issues collectively and in the interest of our membership,” Odongo explained. 

All Photos by Eddie Ssejjoba

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Here are delegates during the ministerial meeting of the 19th NAM Summit at Munyonyo Convention Centre in Kampala;