The Government of Uganda has revealed that it has not received mission allowances for the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) troops deployed under African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) since April 2021. According to a statement issued by the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) Spokesperson Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso, the alleged complaints by some soldiers…
The Police have arrested 30 people, suspected to be members of a gang that has been terrorizing motorists and pedestrians along the Kampala Northern bypass. They were netted in a joint operation conducted by police officers from Kira-Road, Kawempe, and Wandegeya Police stations, under the command of Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Stephen Tanui. The operations…
East Kyoga regional police detectives are investigating fellow police officers at Bukedea Central Police Station over the death of two suspects in police custody. The investigations follow a postmortem report from Mbale Regional Referral Hospital that indicated that Joseph Okwalinga alias Golola and Michael Ojakol, died due to injuries inflicted on them. The duo died…
The Joint Security Task Team actively involved in operations aimed at disrupting and dismantling, the newly created rebel group of the Uganda Coalition for Change (UCFC) has arrested an additional 21 suspects. The group forms part of the rebel group and brings the total number of arrested suspects to 29. Fred Enanga the police spokesperson…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) mobile forces together with the FARDC assault force, have finally captured the much revered Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) /ISCAP camp, Kambi Ya Yua. Kambi Ya Yua, a stronghold of ADF/ISCAP terrorists, seating on eight acres of Virunga forest land, is estimated to have accommodated over 600 ADF/ISCAP terrorists and…
Uganda Police Force with sister security agencies have opened up an investigation into the death of Hajj Rashid Kamoga Kulima, a senior human resource manager of the Uganda National Roads Authority-UNRA. Assistant Superintendent of Police Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson said that unknown people brought Kamoga to Seguku based Doctors hospital in…
Violent protests have broken out in Goma, Eastern Democratic Congo (DRC), with demonstrators challenging plans by the Rwandan government to deploy police forces in their city. Protesters hurled bricks at law enforcement personnel and even lit bonfires in the streets to show their dissatisfaction at reports that the police institutions of Rwanda and DRC agreed…
The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) on 17th December 2021 passed out 111 UPDF Officers in Jinja after successfully completing the Junior Command and Staff Course. While presiding over the ceremony, Brig Gen Mathew Gureme, the Chief of training and Recruitment observed that Professionalization is the process of turning a group or an occupation into…
Detectives from Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID are hunting for a fraudster who has collected an unspecified amount of money in millions of shillings from a number of police officers for attending a non-existent training in Switzerland. The fraudster targeted police officers attached to the Directorate of Police Medical Services claiming that they were selected for a…
On 15th December 2021, according to our media source, Natalie E. Brown the Ambassador of the United States (US) Mission in Uganda, while addressing journalists on the Embassy’s 2021 report to the Ugandans that explains the U.S partnership and assistance for the past one year in areas of health, education, democratic values among others. She…
