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Hoima city leaders accuse security personnel of persistent brutality, extortion

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hoima city leaders have accused security personnel of implementing the presidential directives to curb the spread of Covid-19 with continued brutality and extortion. Victims being brutalized and extorted during patrols and night curfews include boda-boda cyclists; shop keepers, mechanics, and restaurant operators. The leaders including councillors …

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Russian military to maintain strategic parity: Putin

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia will adequately react to any foreign attempts to “break strategic parity,” President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. “Some of our foreign colleagues are not abandoning attempts to break this parity, including through the deployment of global missile defense system components in the immediate vicinity of …

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COMMENT: Beware of home made bombs

COMMENT | Samson Tinka | For close to three years, Uganda has gone through several cycles of terrorism attacks, both rural and urban. The rural ones were protracted and took a long time to deal with by government security while the rural terrorism was largely handled and the whole country seemed …

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Security heightened along Uganda-DRC border after bomb threats

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is heightened security surveillance on the shores of Lake Albert in the Bunyoro region, which shares a porous border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The move follows terror alerts which were followed by two explosions in Komamboga, a suburb of Kampala and on …

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Gov’t is not targeting Muslims in war on terror – Museveni

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has said that security personnel are not deliberately targeting Muslims in his government’s ongoing war on terror in the country. Addressing the country on Thursday at State House Nakasero on Covid-19 and the security situation, Museveni said all those arrested or killed …

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Universities heighten security levels after recent bomb attacks

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is an increase in the security measures around universities following two bomb explosions in the country. Institutions of higher learning will reopen next week after months of closure following the outbreak of Covid-19. Despite universities being potential targets for terror attacks given the high …

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Kasese residents warned against night travels

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security personnel in Kasese district have warned residents to avoid travelling at night. The warning follows two separate bomb explosions on Saturday and Monday. On Saturday, an explosion went off at Digida pork joint in Komamboga, killing one person. Two days later, an explosive device …

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UPDF to beef up security in Karamoja sub region – Gen Muhoozi

Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Commander Land Forces Lt. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, says the UPDF will keep beefing up security in Karamoja sub region by deploying more forces in each of the nine districts ahead of a forceful disarmament next month. Gen. Muhoozi says the Ministry of Defence has …

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LIVE: President Museveni address on security

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni is addressing the nation on peace and security, and will also focus on the judiciary. He started by giving a history of instability in Uganda and how the National Resistance Movement turned it around in 1986. “This current crime wave will …

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