Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, two intelligence sources said Thursday. Shekau’s Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province had been battling in northeastern Borno…
Uganda Police directorate of Interpol has opened online services for certificates of good conduct for Ugandans and other international nationals. Birungi Charles,the Interpol Director said the move will help reduce the number of people who were flocking their offices in Kololo to apply for certificates of good conduct. “We expect this new system to reduce…
The Eastern Africa Standby Force has opened a two weeks long integrated Mission Planning Course at the United Nations Regional Service Centre in Entebbe. The course was officially opened by the Deputy Commander Air Force, Maj Gen Geoffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi who expressed gratitude to the African Union for funding the course. Maj Gen Katsigazi called…
Recently promoted Uganda army officers currently serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, have received their new rank insignia while in Mogadishu, Somalia. In April 2021, a total of 1,393 officers of the Uganda Peoples Defence Force were promoted to various junior and senior ranks. Seventy-seven (77) of the promoted officers are deployed…
Joint Security Agencies in Uganda have heightened enforcement of the Covid-19 measures including the nightly curfews to due to the emergency of a dangerous and more transmissible strain of Covid-19, similar to that in India. Fred Enanga,police spokesperson revealed that the Ministry of Health, has evidence of the new Covid-19 strain in the country, and…
The Director of Personnel and Administration Col Dan Omoding has officiated at the graduation Ceremony of the Unit Adjutant course intake five at the Junior Command and Staff College in Gaddafi Barracks- Jinja. “Today marks the end of your 12 months course. I therefore congratulate you for the achievement attained and well deserved. You being…
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) has asked the High court in Kampala to allow them to settle out of court a case in which they were sued over battering journalists earlier this year. City lawyer Steven Kalali sued the government on behalf of journalists for battering several journalists on February 22, 2021, who’d gone…
The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has held a decoration ceremony for the recently promoted Generals at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs headquarters in Kampala. The Generals were decorated with their new pips under strict observance of the Ministry of Health Standard Operating Procedures against the COVID 19 pandemic at a function presided…
security agencies have put Kampala City and other parts of the country on alert to curb any possible insecurity and political disruptions as the Uganda prepares for the swearing in of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on May 12th at Kololo independence grounds. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga on Monday, revealed that the Joint Task Force has…
Police have intensified and reinstated their operations to enforce curfew around Kampala metropolitan and other parts of the country after new covid-19 hit South Africa,Brazil and India killing thousands of people. This comes after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Saturday,while celebrating international labour held at State house Entebbe told Ugandans that curfew will be eased…
