Category: Uganda
Uganda: Alarm of terror attacks in Somalia Needs Security Sector Reform
Kampala (HAN) August 1, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional weekly Security update. Attack prompts security reshuffle: A presumed attempt on foreign diplomats’ life is being put to good use by intriguers in the ruling elite the attack on hotels around Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu’s seaside residence has resulted in the dismissal of security officers…
Uganda: Somalia Security Efforts 'Urgent'
Kampala (HAN) July 30, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiative News – Security Briefing – In a message to the Special Meeting of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee on foreign terrorist fighters today, the Secretary-General said the rise in the number of those fighters demonstrates the growing spread of violent extremism, which demands urgent international attention…
Uganda: An offering to Obama "attempting to deflect attention"
Kampala (HAN) July 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security Initiative News – Kenya remind us that Somalia still faces enormous challenge. Kenya and Ethiopia want to present the US President with a victory against the Islamists in Somalia as AMISOM’s funding is threatened, both Uganda Troops and Kenyan forces in Kismayo. The next…
Uganda: Ethiopia signed three Memorandum of Understanding
Addis Ababa (HAN) July 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Investment News -Ethiopia and Uganda Joint Ministerial Commission ended with a signing of three Memorandum of Understanding in the areas of Education, Agriculture, Tourism and cultural Heritage. In a press conference that followed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, Ethiopian Foreign minister, Dr.Tedros…
Somalia: The Capture of Tortorow Town ‘Operation Western Sweep’
Kampala (HAN) June 27, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. By, Hudson Apunyo. A former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) Commander turned UPDF officer who was June 17 killed in an ambush in Southern Somalia by Al-Shabaab militants has been laid to rest at his home in Boroboro Parish, outside Lira town. Maj. Geoffrey…
The United States Condemns Nations Affected by these vicious Attacks
Washington (HAN) June 26, 2015 – Press Statement, National Security and Diplomatic Briefing. Terrorist Attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, and Tunisia: John Kirby, US Department Spokesperson, Washington, DC. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s horrifying terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, and Tunisia, where dozens of innocent civilians and, in the…
Uganda: Museveni is Drawing the Battle lines
Kampala (HAN) June 17, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – Museveni is making sure of electoral victory in 2016, but more and more rivals and defectors are chipping away at his support. Speaking on YouTube on 15 June (Watch it), John Patrick Amama Mbabazi declared his intention to secure the…
Uganda: AMISOM Leave Somali Women Alone "Don't Rape"
Kampala (HAN) June 16, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Safety and Security News – John Agaba. The Ugandan Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Katumba Wamala speaks to some of the UPDF soldiers during the send-off ceremony for Battle Group XVI to Somalia Peace Keeping Mission at Singo Training School in Nakaseke District on June…
Kenya: The bright stars that has risen in Africa
Nairobi (HAN) June 1st, 2015 – Regional Security News. By. Rose Katabarwa-Kareba. Uhuru Kenyatta and President Yoweri Museveni who paid a courtesy call at State House, Nairobi ahead of the Madaraka Day celebrations. Two accomplished leaders in their own spheres of governance. But I will betray my own country, Uganda ,and cheer for My Uhuru, the…
Uganda: Etihad launches new passenger service
Kampala (HAN) May 4, 2015 – Public Diplomacy, Regional Investment News. Etihad Airways’ inaugural flight EY645 is welcomed with a water cannon salute by the Ugandan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as it lands at Entebbe International Airport. Etihad Airways , the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, strengthened its presence in East Africa today with the launch…
