Parliament yesterday approved a new loan worth $121 million (Shs 420 billion) from the African Development Fund to finance Uganda’s electricity export project to South Sudan, despite sharp divisions among MPs While some legislators welcomed the project as a strategic regional investment that could generate foreign income, others warned that it would worsen Uganda’s debt…
Military chiefs from Uganda and South Sudan have held discussions following a deadly border dispute between the two countries. Gen Sam Okiding, Uganda’s deputy CDF, and Dau Aturjong Nyuol, chief of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF), met on Saturday in Juba according toMaj Gen Felix Kulayigye, the UPDF spokesperson. Kulayigye said the discussions…
The Uganda People Defence Forces said it had conducted air-drops of 600 metric tons of essential food supplies targeting several locations in South Sudan’s violence-hit state of Upper Nile. Chris Magezi, acting military spokesperson, told Xinhua by telephone that Uganda Peoples’ Defense Airforce has airlifted humanitarian aid deliveries provided by international partners from South Sudan’s…
South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar, a long-time rival of the country’s President Salva Kiir, has been placed under house arrest, his party says. An armed convoy led by top security officials, including the defence minister, entered Machar’s residence in the capital, Juba, and disarmed his bodyguards late on Wednesday, said the Sudan People’s Liberation…
The Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Jacob Oboth has defended the deployment of the UPDF in South Sudan saying President Salva Kiir requested President Museveni for urgent support. Oboth told MPs that Kiir was responding to the civil unrest that erupted in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State at the beginning of March. “On 10…
The arrest of an army general from South Sudan’s main opposition is a “grave violation” of the peace deal that ended a five-year civil war, an opposition spokesperson has told the BBC. Gen Gabriel Duop Lam was arrested earlier this week, along with other senior officials of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO)….
