Uganda, April 19 -- A long-serving aide to Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has reportedly vanished in the United States of America (USA) where he accompanied the premier on an official trip to New York.

Sources familiar with the matter said Mr Emmanuel Atwiine "likely" disappeared from a hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday night, but the entourage became aware on Wednesday when he was a no-show for breakfast.

The Ugandan delegation initially assumed Mr Atwiine had overslept. Suspicion, however, snowballed after calls and text messages to his mobile phone number went answered.

Intercom calls to his room by the front desk too went unanswered, sparking a scare and notification of staff at Uganda's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, the ho...