Security

The most common words often quite identical with President Yoweri Museveni are ‘POVERTY ERADICATION AND WEALTH CREATION. This is of course the campaign has prominently consistent in the various manifestos of the ruling National Resistance Movement party since 1986 when it took overpower. You may recall the Entandikwa (1995), poverty eradication action plan (1996), Prosperity for All (2007), Wealth Creation and the most recent Parish Development Model. All these were the government initiatives to kick poverty out of Uganda and empower local...

Government has heightened operations to crackdown on illegal financial dealers within the country. The latest report indicates that several financial dealers especially money lenders have been and still levying high interest rates and fleecing clients off their property in the guise of Security. Rachael Muherez, the Manager in charge Microfinance Institutions at the Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority (UMRA) while presiding over the launch of another branch of UNIFI Uganda at Kabalagala, Makindye Division, a financial Institution recently said Government is committed...

The Lord's Resistance Army rebels raided Barlonyo village on 21st February 2004, 18 kilometers, East of Lira District, the current Agweng Sub County and massacred over 300 people who were staying in the then Internally Displaced Persons' Camp. The attack that had targeted both the civilians, UPDF soldiers and Amuka Auxiliary force who were tasked to guard the former IDP Camp was described as one of the most notorious and heartless incident conducted by the defeated LRA in Northern Uganda. Since...

Two senior UPDF officers who were recently appointed and deployed in Uganda Police Force have finaly assumed their new offices. In a cerermony held on Monday morning and was presided over by the IGP Martin Okoth Ochola, the officers including Major Gen. Tumusiime Katsigazi took over the office of the Deputy IGP while Major Gen. Abel Kandiho took over office of the Chief Joint Staff of the Uganda Police Force. The IGP also bid farewell to the outgoing CJS, AIGP Jackson...

Security has been tipped of a planned demonstration by some Street vendors and hawkers in Kampala. According to the sources in the security Circles, vendors under their umbrella group by the Name New Generation are planning to stage wide spread demonstrations on Tuesday 22nd February 2022 in the central city of Kampala in hope to cause the government to let hawkers back to the streets. The sources said that the group intends to disrupt normal business operations in Kampala, forcing everyone to...

President Museveni on Saturday joined his counterparts from Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville and Togo to discuss among others coups and security in Africa. The mini-summit held in the Republic of Congo’s Oyo town in the Cuvette region was organized by President Denis Sassou Nguesso. According to a joint communication, the four Leaders discussed in length the happenings in several parts of the continent, especially West Africa where coups have become a frequent occasion. Several government’s especially in West Africa have...