Ministry taking steps over Uganda passport seizures

By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said that it had received reports about Taiwanese being denied entry into Uganda and having their passports withheld by local authorities, and that Taiwan’s representative office in Somaliland was making contact to negotiate about the matter.The Chinese-language United Daily News (UDN) yesterday reported that two Taiwanese had their passports taken by local authorities in Uganda this month.A Taiwanese passport holder with a legal work permit in Uganda had his passport taken when he took a domestic flight in Uganda and landed at Entebbe International Airport on Monday last week, with immigration officials citing a “new policy,” UDN reported. The name and logo of the Ministry of Fore