Court of Appeal orders government to pay $8.71m debt to Iraqi Fund for External Development

According to The Observer, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the Iraqi Fund for External Development and overturned a High Court decision that had quashed certificates of order for payment of a decades-old loan debt by the Government of Uganda. In the lead judgment, Justice Fredrick Egonda-Ntende held that the High Court could not reopen a concluded case on the strength of a 2017 letter from Iraq's UN mission; Justices Eva Luswata and Esta Nambayo concurred.