Regional

The East African Community (EAC) Deputy Secretary General in charge of Infrastructure, Productive, Social, and Political Sectors, Hon. Aguer Ariik Malueth, has underscored the importance of the Uganda-Kenya expressway in facilitating movement and trade between EAC member states as he handed over the site for a feasibility study to the consultancy firm GOPA Infra Gmbh of Germany and ITEC Limited of Kenya. The Kenya-Uganda expressway will involve the rehabilitation of the existing two-lane single-carriageway to bitumen standards and the upgrading...

The United Kingdom (UK) Parliament on Tuesday morning, April 23, 2024, passed the Rwanda Bill allowing the UK to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. The bill spearheaded by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had stalled for two months after the House of Lords had been engaged in an extended tussle over the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, sending it back to the House of Commons five times in a bid to secure changes. The unelected chamber ended the...

Colonel Topher Magino, the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF) Commander of Battle Group 40 under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), has met with the two militaristic clan leaders of Jiddo and Garre in Quiryole district, Somalia, and urged them to ceasefire and embrace peace for the sake of their people who want harmony. He made these remarks on April 21, 2024, while meeting with Mohamed Ibrahim Barre, the Governor of lower Shabelle, and the clan leaders of...

Thirteen people have been reported dead and one has been badly injured due to a three-car accident in the Ngata area of Nakuru County along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway. The tragic incident occurred on April 9, 2024, at approximately 5:30 a.m. According to Kenya's traffic police, two trucks and a passenger van were involved in the collision. A speeding truck collided with the passenger van, causing it to crash into a stalled truck at Ngata Bridge. Tragically, 13 individuals lost their...

The Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces (UPDF), in a joint operation with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), have put out of action an Allied Democratic Forces commander and the outfit's medic known as 'Dr' Musa. UPDF Mountain Division / Operation Shuja's public information officer Major Bilal Katamba in a statement dated April 9, 2024, said that the ADF commander and 'Dr' Musa were killed in action by a joint mobile squad forces under the 83 battalion...

In an operation by the joint Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces together with Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo code-named "Shujaa," put out of action a notorious commander of the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group known as ‘Baghdad’. In a statement issued on Friday April 5th,2024 by UPDF, stated that the forces’ mobile squad under the 3rd Mountain Battalion, operating together with FARDC troops, killed ‘Baghdad’ in the area of Ambusire, Northwest of Tingwe, 16.5 km from Elengeti Town...