Uganda: 'Poor legislator-scientist relations to blame for drought'
Speaking at two day consultative workshop for parliamentarians on disaster risk reduction (DRR) recently held in Geneva, Switzerland, speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) Abdirahin Abdi has attributed the current drought in the Horn of Africa to lack of closer working relationships between parliamentarians and scientists. According to the East African Business Week, he called for building new bridges between scientists, technocrats and Parliamentarians if meaningful advances in DRR and disaster management are to be realized. He said that EALA is planning to hold a continental conference on DRR aimed at sharing information and map out new strategies.