President Rupiah Banda has returned home after attending a two-day African Union (AU) Special Summit on Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on the Continent.
The Presidential Plane which carried Mr Banda and his entourage took off at Entebbe Airport at about 17 : 45 hours local time.
The President was seen off at the airport by Uganda Minister of State For Foreign Affairs and International Affairs Oryem Henry Okello.
Zambia’s Deputy Ambassador to Tanzania Patrick Ngoma and other senior Government officials saw off the President after attending the land mark Summit.
Earlier, during today, President Banda in a vote of thanks addressed the official closing of the AU Summit held at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala where he described the meeting as a distinct success as evidenced by the signing of the Kampala Convention and Declaration for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons.
The document is the first ever international instrument to cater for humanitarian needs of affected people.
The President during the same meeting together with 16 other Heads of State and representatives of Government signed the convention.
Yesterday, President Banda attended the official opening of the landmark Summit under the theme: ” African Union Addressing the Challenges Of Forced Internal Displacement.”
On the same day, he also participated in closed door deliberations during which a number of issues relating to internal displacement were discussed.
The President was accompanied to Uganda by Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Fashion Phiri and other senior Government officials.
The Summit was preceded by a two-day extraordinary special session of Executive Council comprising Government Ministers who drafted the Kampala Convention and Declaration for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced people in Africa.
The session officially opened on Monday and closed the following day.
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Only our very own HERB and Sekuru Mugabe attended this summit hosted by Museveni. Gaddafi and other African leaders shunned it!
Fuel was unnecessarily burnt to Kampala mwebantu. Even if people say the problem is supposed to attend summits and stuff like that, teifi.
Yes, but that is history, the question where is he going next?
24 foreign trips in 11 months is a record for a President. The MMD should submit this to for inclusion in the Guinness World Records. Where next Mr. President? When are you ever going to address issues facing Zambians?
President Banda has traveled to 16 countries during the 11 months of his presidency. President Banda has travelled to Zimbabwe twice, Kenya twice, South Africa twice, Uganda twice, Nigeria, Libya, Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, the United States, Cuba and Venezuela.
Boooooooooo. Ok, so RB you’re back and? Did you bring back soem fuel? I bet you did for your relatives….fat bastard! Git tha f*$k outta here!
And the sum total of all those joy rides: One FAT ZERO! Not one single positive thing has come out of this motherf…er’s globetrotting adventures to benefit the country! Somebody has tobe held accountable!
#6. That is very funny…..like your comment
RB was topless in Swaziland like Muswati……showing his big belly, whatever happend after that!!
#9 Chamafiga. Ive just had a look at the horrific pictures on the Post site. im in total shock and owe.. What wrong have we done to deserve such embarassment?
Only the host president Museveni, the AU Chairman Ghadafy and the senile sekuru Mugabe besides Banda attended this meeting. As a slap in the face, Kanitundila was seen off at the airport by Minister of State For Foreign Affairs Oryem Henry Okello. All Africans now do not take this f o o l seriously. And he came back to find Kapijimbanga’s husband has resigned from the ruling party to join the opposion and to run for Central Solwezi by election, yet Banda does not seem to realise things in North-Western are like Western falling apart for MMD. Kanitundila now has zero re-election chance, he has doomed himself.
there’s another AU summit in Nigeria on the 26th or 27th, not sure. DO NOT AT ALL BE SURPRISED IF OUR VERY OWN DECIDES TO BLOW THERE AS WELL
MUNYONYO Speke Hotel” in kampala is full of “malaya’s” they line up outside like they do in Addis Abba road in Lusaka!!
Did Jacob Zuma and Ian Khama attend this summit??????
#13. VICTORIA, The place where the meeting took place is my playground. It is called MUNYONYO COMMON WEALTH RESORT also called SPEKE RESORT. It is on the beach of Lake Victoria. There are many beaches there like LIDO Beach, Imperial beach. It is a nice facility with a Presidential lounge. The place is very expensive. I had taken a girl friend there.
there is another Speke Hotel close to Sheraton and Nile Hotels in Kampala.. women used to chase my car like they do in Addis… used to go and eat fish at Gaba beach, barbeques at Enttebe beach… maybe they have changed the names now..