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The leaders who are already in Uganda include South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit; Djibouti President, Ismail Omar Guelleh; and Somalia President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
The IGAD summit will be held Thursday, January 18 at State House, Entebbe while the NAM summit -- which is being held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, started on January 15 and will end on January 20.
At Entebbe International Airport, President Salva Kiir was received by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Affairs John Mulimba, on behalf of the Ugandan government, and Simon Juach Deng, the Ambassador of South Sudan to Uganda.
The Non-Aligned Movement was founded and held its first conference (the Belgrade Conference) in 1961 under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Sukarno of Indonesia.
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The current chairman of the Movement is Azerbaijani President, Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev, who assumed the seat at the 18th Summit of NAM that was held in October 2019 in Baku, Azerbaijan. One of the items on the agenda at the NAM Summit is electing a new chairman.
NAM is guided by a framework of principles that include mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence among others.