At a time when Africa is mobilizing resources for pandemic recovery and sustainable development, illicit financial flows (IFFs) are robbing the continent of 50 billion U.S. dollars annually, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told a high-level virtual meeting on Thursday held under the African Union’s (AU) “Silencing the Guns” initiative. These staggering losses “would be…
Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, have called on the Trump Administration to take immediate action to address a worsening human rights situation in Uganda prior to general elections next month. In his December 9, 2020 letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Engel…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has stated that they have no problem with the decision by presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, to wear bulletproof vests during his campaign meetings. The response from UPDF through its spokesperson, Brig Flavia Byekwaso, comes a few hours after Kyagulanyi posted a picture of him and…
Uganda Police and military deployed heavily around Kampala city as National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential Candidate Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert was meeting Electoral Commission Chairman Justice Simon Byabakama and his team. The meeting came after Bobiwine suspended presidential campaigns citing excessive security brutality against his supporters. Bobi Wine’s official car was destroyed when he approached Jinja…
Deadly clashes erupted as police fired teargas and live bullets to disperse supporters of Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in Kayunga district. Police and military blocked the main road leading to Kayunga town and fired bullets at defiant supporters. Shopkeepers abandoned their shops and fled to safety as well as journalists who are…
The Federal Republic of Germany Ambassador to Uganda H.E Matthias Schauer paid a courtesy call to the ministry of Defence and Veteran affairs/UPDF headquarters Mbuya. In a brief meeting, the Ambassador and his hosts discussed issues of mutual interest in defence partnership and called upon the UPDF leadership ro resume from where the two countries…
Police alongside sister security agencies on Sunday night arrested the advance team that was supposed to chart Bobi Wine’s way to Western Uganda. The forces led by the OC of Kyegegwa District Police Station raided AMAC Suites Hotel and arrested members of Bobi Wine ‘s Presidential Campaign Advance Team that travelled there Sunday evening to…
The Minister of Security, Gen Elly Tumwine has said that the police and other security personnel have a right to kill protesters if they are attacked. Speaking to reporters at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, Gen Tumwine said that he had no apologies for anybody who was killed while attacking security forces as they…
The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Air Force (UPDAF) Chief of Staff (COS-AF) Maj Gen Charles Okidi has concluded his six days official working visit to African Union Mission to Somalia ‘AMISOM’ Sector One in Somalia. Gen Okidi was received by the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Col Elvis T Byamukama at Aden Abdulle International Airport (AAIA). He…
Private Lotukei Paul attached to Bukara army dettach, 06 Mountain Battalion 222 Mountain Brigade has been sentenced to 90 years imprisonment. This was after the Mountain Division Court Martial Sitting at Muhoti Barracks in Fortportal, found him guilty of two counts of murder contrary to sub section 188 and 189 of the penal code act…
