KAMPALA (Reuters) - Twin bomb attacks in Uganda that killed 73 people last week were carried out by suicide bombers and Pakistanis were among 20 suspects arrested, the head of police said on Sunday.
The US government has sent 60 Federal Bureau of Investigations specialists to comb Uganda for forensic leads as two more terrorist suspects were picked in Arua District on Friday.
Nearly 1,800 Rwandans were deported from Uganda this week after arriving at two refugee camps in the west of the country to seek asylum. The UN High Commission for Refugees and other organisations representing refugees have criticised the decision. Uganda has said that everything was done in accordance to procedure. Two men died during the deportation.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda is ready to send an additional 2,000 peacekeeping troops to Somalia despite threats from hardline Somali Islamists of more attacks if peacekeepers are not withdrawn, an army spokesman said on Friday.
Kampala — Police four foreign nationals have been arrested in connection with the discovery of an unexploded suicide vest in a disco hall in Makindye Kampala.
Nairobi — The discovery by Ugandan police of an unexploded suicide vest only a day after 76 people were killed in a double bombing in Kampala has sent terror fears across the region.
Uganda's army insists it will not withdraw from peacekeeping mission in Somalia due to the Sunday night bombings in Kampala by Al Shabaab- an al-Qaida-affiliated militant faction in Somalia. The twin blasts in Kampala that targeted people watching World Cup finals killed 74 people and left 70 others critically injured.
Police in Uganda have arrested four persons all foreigners in connection with Sunday's twin bombings in Kampala. Uganda Police Boss Major General Kale Kaihura said the arrest of the four persons is linked to the discovery of an unexploded suicide vest in a disco hall in Makindye-a Kampala city suburb.
A series of bomb attacks has killed at least 64 people in Uganda's capital Kampala. Several others have been left severely injured. The attacks appeared to target those who were watching world cup finals last night. Two bombs went off at Ethiopian village restaurant in Kabalagala and two others at Logogo Rugby Club during the second half of the match.
The US President Barack Obama is calling the deadly bomb blasts that killed 64 persons including foreigners in Uganda last night "deplorable and cowardly," a spokesman said. "The president is deeply saddened by the loss of life resulting from these deplorable and cowardly attacks.
At least 10 Eritreans and an American died in last night's bomb attacks that killed at least 64 people in Uganda's capital Kampala. Six other Americans are among those severely injured.
Uganda is to host the 66th Heads of States Summit of the African Union for the first time in 35 years. It last hosted under the fiat of dictator Idi Amin.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Ugandan government has agreed to liberalise the pensions sector, opening up a sector hitherto monopolised by the state's National Social Security Fund (NSSF), the finance minister said on Friday.
Over 3,000 Sudanese refugees in Imvepi and Rhino camps in Arua district, Uganda, have refused to return home, a refugees desk officer who pleaded anonymity told AfricaNews on Sunday.
Scientists in Uganda have developed genetically moddified (GM) bananas that show promising resistance to a deadly banana wilt disease. Bananas are a main Ugandan export.
UPDF’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Monday confirmed that Sudanese militia, the Janjaweed, not LRA rebels, probably killed over 10 Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) recently.
Uganda has backtracked on a decision to bar Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir from the African Union summit in Kampala next month, saying the leader, who is wanted for war crimes, has actually been invited.
Besides President Bashir, sources at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa said Niger and Guinea leaders are yet to be invited to the Kampala summit.
Delegates at a meeting of countries signed up to the International Criminal Court neared a deal on Monday on allowing the tribunal to prosecute crimes involving countries that invade or attack another.
Uganda has backtracked on a decision to bar Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir from the African Union summit in Kampala next month, saying the leader, who is wanted for war crimes, has actually been invited.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who faces the risk of arrest on war crimes charges, has not been invited to next month's African Union conference in Uganda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement.
