Uganda’s High Commissioner to India praises Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a friend for India’s help during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Uganda’s High Commissioner to India, Joyce Kakuramatsi Kikafunda, has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relationship with Uganda, calling him a friend with “no strings attached.” Kikafunda highlighted that the friendship between the two countries has strengthened since Modi’s visit to Uganda in 2018, and that Uganda will never forget India’s help during the Covid-19 pandemic. She also praised the recent visit of India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Uganda and Mozambique, and noted the opening of the National Forensic Sciences University’s first overseas campus in Uganda’s Jinja as a proud moment for both countries. The High Commissioner was speaking at a women entrepreneurs conference hosted by Baroness Verma of the UK’s House of Lords.