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There is no doubt that the time to independence was both exciting and confused. It was exciting because it carried hope for independence but it was confused because the road map to independence after a long time of colonial rule was haphazard. There were a lot of expectations and ideals but it was also an opportunity lost for reasons not entirely of Ugandans alone abut also of the colonisers. From the conceptual level of ideas like democracy, political parties and Constitutionalism to the practice of these ideas, a lot needed to be clarified and structures and institutions need to be built and nurtured in preparation for self-rule. But it was not the case. The consequence of all this messed up Ugandans up to independence and beyond. It is a legacy we continue to grapple with. Let us revisit these concepts so as to get sense out of them.

There is no doubt that the time to independence was both exciting and confused. It was exciting because it carried hope for independence but it was confused because the road map to independence after a long time of colonial rule was haphazard. There were a lot of expectations and ideals but it was also an opportunity lost for reasons not entirely of Ugandans alone abut also of the colonisers. From the conceptual level of ideas like democracy, political parties and Constitutionalism to the practice of these ideas, a lot needed to be clarified and structures and institutions need to be built and nurtured in preparation for self-rule. But it was not the case. The consequence of all this messed up Ugandans up to independence and beyond. It is a legacy we continue to grapple with. Let us revisit these concepts so as to get sense out of them.

In verschiedenen Regionen Afrikas werden Ideen diskutiert zum Aufbau regionaler Organisationen zur Wahrung des Friedens und zur Vermittlung in Konfliktfällen. Die OAU beschloß 1994 einen Mechanismus zur friedlichen Streitbeilegung (conflict resolution) einzurichten, und die früheren Frontstaaten im südlichen Afrika planen einen "security, conflict resolution and defence arm" der SADC zu gründen. Der Artikel schildert die Probleme bei der Einigung auf gemeinsame Institutionen. Die Erfahrungen, die afrikanische Staatschefs mit "conflict resolution" haben, werden u.a. durch die Vermittlungsbemühungen von Präsident Moi zwischen Obote und Museveni dargelegt. Der Beitrag stellt die Aufgaben und Ziele von Systemen gemeinsamer Sicherheit und friedlicher Streitbeilegung aus afrikanischer Sicht dar. (DÜI-Spl)

In April 2019, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region's Regional Training Facility (ICGLR-RTF) organized a regional meeting entitled "Sensitization Meeting for Police Chiefs and National Reproductive Health Heads in the Great Lakes Region." Held in Kigo, Uganda, the meeting brought together chiefs of police and heads of reproductive health departments (Ministries of Health) from nine ICGLR member states, namely: Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia. The meeting was sponsored by the Population Council, Kenya. Sauti/VOICE Program Brief 2 describes the preamble to ICGLR-RTF's meeting resolutions and the ten resolutions made. Regional resolutions will be employed as an advocacy tool by ICGLR-RTF and its partners (including the Council) to promote utilization of the police emergency contraception provision model in the region, including in refugee contexts.

For over a decade, the Population Council and its partners (the Africa Regional SGBV Network) have provided technical assistance and conducted research to strengthen the evidence base of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) programming in Africa's East, Horn, and Great Lakes regions. Under the Africa Regional SGBV Network, the Council and partners developed and tested an intervention including police response to sexual violence survivors, with police provision of emergency contraception (EC) for survivors and referrals to health facilities. This model has been successfully tested in Zambia and Malawi. Studies reveal that EC provision by trained police to sexual violence survivors is both feasible and effective. Results from these studies prompted the Government of Zambia to request Council technical assistance to scale this model nationally, and a meeting was co-convened by the Council and the East African Community Department of Peace and Security in 2014. This meeting report (Sauti/VOICE Program Brief 1) describes meeting objectives and regional recommendations.