Category: Uganda

  • Uganda and Britain expands the Peace Support Operations in Somalia

    Uganda and Britain expands the Peace Support Operations in Somalia

    Kampala (HAN) April 17, 2014 – By Pascal Kwesiga – President Yoweri Museveni has halted the eviction of more than 500 people Center in Nakaseke district by the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF). The residents from Kisimula parish in Kapeeka Sub County petitioned President Museveni protesting the move by UPDF to annex their land to…

  • Sudan: East Africa's New Diplomatic Oil Game

    Sudan: East Africa's New Diplomatic Oil Game

    Addis Ababa (HAN) April 10, 2014 – The eruption of fighting in South Sudan brought East Africa’s political crises into sharp focus at a time of optimism about the region’s economic take-off. Undaunted, analysts point to fast-improving transport links and new oil and gas discoveries. Four leaders dominate the East African diplomatic chess-board, its diplomacy,…

  • Somalia: Weekly Regional Security News Headlines

    Somalia: Weekly Regional Security News Headlines

    Djibouti (HAN) April 5, 2014: A Yemeni Jihadis which are a close strategic partnership Al-shabaab of Somalia has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack this week on an army complex in the southern port city of Aden, saying it meant to “destroy the joint operations room for U.S. drones” operating in the country.  A statement…

  • Somalia: Al-Shabaab and Beautiful Kampala

    Somalia: Al-Shabaab and Beautiful Kampala

    Nairobi (HAN) March 26, 2014 – By: Magnus Taylor: I took a couple of hours out today to visit what used to be called the ‘Gadaffi Mosque’ in ‘Old Kampala’. This, according to the testimony of my tour guide, is the oldest part of the city, and the hill on which the mosque sits was…

  • Uganda: Regional food basket become a policy target for Uganda

    Uganda: Regional food basket become a policy target for Uganda

    Kambala (HAN) March 17, 2014 – The legalised introduction of genetically modified seeds into Uganda’s ecosystem will go down as one of the most successful cases of policy by stealth in the region, if not the continent as a whole. Like the organisms in question, the policy process was a subtle but effective mutation of…

  • Somalia: Insecure Mogadishu poses challenges for Somalis and International Diplomats

    Somalia: Insecure Mogadishu poses challenges for Somalis and International Diplomats

    New York (HAN) March 13th, 2014: The best hope for peace and stability in Somalia, the Horn of Africa and beyond Igad zone remains a united, secure and federal Somalia, including Somaliland, the top United Nations official in the country told the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday, warning that after a series of attacks…

  • Somalia: The United Nations Special Security Guards Arrived in Mogadishu

    Somalia: The United Nations Special Security Guards Arrived in Mogadishu

    MOGADISHU (HAN) The UN Security Elite forces deployed in Somalia, in order to secure the capitals main areas. The troops are about 410 soldiers, their ethnic background are from Uganda, but in the name of United Nations action Guard. Uganda Government Forces spokesman Col. ITV, has told reporters that sending troops to Somalia, the latest…

  • Regional Security: Ugandans React with  Aid cuts

    Regional Security: Ugandans React with Aid cuts

    Kampala (HAN 1st march,2014) – Uganda’s government has been hit with substantial aid cuts after the president enacted a severe anti-gay measure over which some Western governments had warned of consequences. At least three European countries are withdrawing millions in direct support to Uganda’s government, which depends on donors for about 20 per cent of…

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