Undiplomatic truths: Meltdown at Uganda embassy in Abuja on full display

The months-long simmering tensions at Uganda’s embassy in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, have reached a boiling point, with no diplomatic representation amid a paralysis that has seen staff go months without pay and delayed commissioning of a new chancery due to failure to pay the contractor.

The paralysis affects work at the mission that oversees 15 Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), and Equatorial Guinea, while the meltdown portrays the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ top leadership in Kampala as either apathetic or inept.