President Museveni appoints Adonia Ayebare to Cabinet

KAMPALA - President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Uganda’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Adonia Ayebare, to Cabinet as an ex officio member.

Ayebare was sworn in on Monday (April 28) by the Vice President, Jessica Alupo, who chaired the Cabinet meeting at State House, Entebbe while the President was in Kaweweta Military Training School in Nakaseke district to pass out 10,007 recruits.

Ayebare's appointment was revealed by the State House in a public announcement on social site X.

Ayebare, 58, also took to social media platform X to thank the President for the appointment.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for the trust in me over the years with strategic Diplomatic assignments, both bilateral and multilateral. I look forward to diligently serving as an ex officio in Cabinet," reads a post on his social sites.

On the same day (Monday, April 28th) Ayebare attended what President Museveni described as a productive meeting with Starlink representatives Ben MacWilliams and Brandi Oliver whom he hosted at Nakasero State House in Kampala.

In a brief note on Social Media X, Museveni stated, “I appreciate their commitment to providing low-cost internet in hard-to-reach areas and establishing a presence in Uganda." 

William Popp, the US ambassador to Uganda, also attended the meeting.

Ayabare now joins other ex officio members of Cabinet such as Richard Todwong, the ruling National Resistance Movement party secretary general.

On August 16, 2024, he chaired a monthly ambassadorial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries in New York.

The meeting heard reports from the coordinators and updates on the situation in the occupied territories of Palestine.

NAM is the largest grouping of states worldwide after the UN, and as chair of the organisation, Uganda is coordinating positions of member countries towards major international issues, to strengthen their negotiating power vis-à-vis the developed countries.

Uganda asserted its global presence at the bloc's 19th summit, which ran from January 15 to January 20, 2024 at Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort Hotel in Kampala.

The summit saw Uganda assume the organisation's leadership for three years.
NAM comprises 121 countries — 54 from Africa, 39 from Asia, 26 from Latin America and the Caribbean, and two from Europe.

It also includes the non-UN member state of Palestine, 17 other observer countries and 10 observer organisations.