Ugandan president Gen. Museveni and Rwandan president Paul Kagame are planning to deploy troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight the different rebel groups in the eastern part of the country. Other African heads of state that want to deploy in DR Congo are, Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete, Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, and […]
President Museveni has directed police to block walk to work activities whenever the force gets wind of it in any part of Uganda. The OC Kasangati police barracks Francis Tumwesigye says that he is on standing orders from above deploy at Col. Kiiza Besigye’s home whenever he receives information that the Colonel is planning […]
Makerere University students have violently demonstrated on the roads around their institution of learning because they have not been paid their faculty allowances and internship allowance. The demonstration made the police to heavily deploy at all the gates of Makerere University, schools, colleges and offices for fear that the rioting students would burn them. The […]
The Uganda police force is set to start growing its own food due to high cost of food across the country. We have heard that the inspector general of police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura has instructed the force’s director for research, Julius Sharita to find land on which all police officers and men will be […]
Uganda Peoples Defence Forces have started a training programme to prepare its soldiers for deployment to the African Union United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID). According to a source in the ministry of defence, Uganda will deploy in Darfur early next year as per UNAMID programme. We are reliably informed that UNAMID has requested […]