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July 23, 2024 at 4:28 AM. KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan security forces detained a number of young people on Tuesday in downtown Kampala who were taking part in a banned rally against what the ...
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police have arrested another five people and discovered five more explosives around the capital Kampala in a bombing plot linked to an Islamist rebel group, the force said.
Many of the inhabitants of Bukwo District live in abject poverty. The district is also plagued by persistent insecurity due to cattle raids and cattle rustling by ethnic groups from Karamoja located in northeastern Uganda and the Turkana and Pokot peoples from neighbouring Kenya. These challenges date to the 1950s and 1960s.
Nakivale refugee settlement is located near the Tanzania border in Isingiro district, Southern Uganda. It is approximately 200 km away from Kampala city, which is the administrative capital of Uganda. [4] The Nakivale refugee settlement is six hours' drive from the capital, Kampala. [12] It stretches for 184 sq km (71 sq miles) and covers ...
The Violent Crime Crack Unit (VCCU) is a security agency of the government of Uganda established in 2001. [1] Originally a military unit codenamed "Operation Wembley", it was put under police control and renamed, amid charges of human rights abuses. [2]
Canary Mugume is a Ugandan investigative journalist with NBS Television and a Léo Africa Young Emerging Leaders Program Fellow. His investigative reporting is specialized in current affairs, dysfunctions of the economy, and social matters and led him to be elevated to the prime news bulletin Live @ 9 together with Isabella Tugume on Monday 2 August 2021.
The External Security Organisation (ESO) is a government agency, mandated to collect, analyse and process information related to external security threats with the objective of informing national policy makers in Uganda. Its headquarters are located in a three-story office building that the agency owns on Hannington Road, on Nakasero Hill, in ...
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is an Islamic extremist terrorist group originated in Uganda but is based in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group's insurgency began in 1996; it kills hundreds of civilians every year, mainly by attacking villages. The most deadly ADF attack in Uganda was on 8 June, 1998, when the group ...