Africa: Uganda Team Kicked Out of WHO Meeting

10 November 2016

Kampala — A team of Ugandan officials were on Monday blocked from attending a tobacco control meeting adding to a series of diplomatic embarrassments where senior government personnel have been denied entry into WHO meeting venues on the orders of their own government colleagues.

Last month, delegates from the Trade Ministry including MPs were kicked out of a World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) meeting in the Algerian capital of Algiers.

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