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Special Forces to build ‘influence artillery’ for online campaigns February 18 1st Special Forces Command is creating an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in tailored influence messaging. (Staff Sgt. Joseph Tolliver/Army) WASHINGTON — To stay ahead of rapidly moving threats in the information space, 1st Special Forces Command is building an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in “influence artillery rounds.” Critical to Special Forces’ role is deployi...

Daily Monitor Saturday February 13 2021 Summary Mr Asuman Bisiika says: If it were left to me, I would call for a review of UPDF representation in Parliament.   Advertisement Once again, we arrogate myself the right to write about the UPDF; this, in spite of accusations that I always poke our blunt noses in the wrong place. And we come with the question: What criteria should the UPDF use to select or nominate and elect its 10 Members of Parliament?  In 2016, I wrote in these very pages an ar...

‘Unconscionable’: The race to stop Israel from selling weapons to Uganda 12 Feb 2021 Despite mounting allegations of human rights abuse, Museveni has a close ally in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A police officer beats a female orange vendor on a street in Kampala, Uganda, on March 26, 2020, after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni directed the public to stay home for 32 days starting March 22, 2020 to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Badru Katumba / AFP) , the pan...

This week, Kyagulanyi also sought to amend his petition and introduced other grounds. He contends that as an incum-bent, Museveni was not supposed to take part in the January 14 presidential election. “Contrary to Articles 102 (2) (b) and 219 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda as amended and S. 4 (b) of the Presidential Elections Act as amended, the 1st Respondent [Museveni] was not qualified for election as president while in the office of head of state, head of government, comman...

“I came to know of his whereabouts on May 10, 2020 when security operatives brought him home for a house search. They told me he wasn’t a criminal but he associated with wrong people,” she said in an interview with The Observer on February 3.  After the house search, which found only his national identity card, she said Ankunda was taken back to Mbuya barracks where he was illegally detained without any access to relatives until June 3, 2020. Mwiza said when she finally got to meet her...

Bobi Wine amends election petition February 8, 2021 Robert Kyagulanyi National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine has amended the election petition challenging the outcome of the just-concluded presidential race.  According to results released by the Electoral Commission, Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the incumbent and candidate of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, a 58 per cent ma...

FBI investigates homicides of two soldiers found shot on Fort Bragg who were BOTH facing criminal charges and were also being investigated for selling drugs FBI said Tuesday it is joining with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command in investigating the deaths of Timothy Dumas Sr. and William Lavigne III  Both men were discovered on the North Carolina base on December 2 2020  According to the FBI news release, a gray 2016 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck belonging to Lavigne was found a...

Opinon: The MTV MAMAs Shouldnt Be Happening In Uganda By Dr Vincent Magombe Over the years, many other Ugandan musicians have faced pressure not to criticize the regime, but instead to sing praise songs for Museveni. by Dr Vincent Magombe Feb 01, 2021 Last week, MTV officially announced that its 2021 Africa Music Awards, the MAMAs, would be held in Uganda on February 20. The event, which has been planned in coordination with Uganda’s tourism ministry, is being advertised alongside the hashtag...

okayafrica Photo by BADRU KATUMBA/AFP via Getty Images. A supporter of Ugandan musician turned politician Bobi Wine, waves Ugandan flag during his presidential rally in Fort Portal on November 23, 2020. Opinion: The MTV MAMAs Shouldnt Be Happening in Uganda "How can MTV and Viacom executives, who claim to be supportive of Black Lives Matter, now look the other way when those lives are African?" Dr. Vincent Magombe is a Ugandan journalist, broadcaster and university lecturer. La...

Daily Monitor Wednesday January 27 2021 The NRM chairperson of Kitubulu-Katabi, Eric Kyeyune, (pictured) was shot dead by SFC soldiers who had been deployed to calm the situation Summary The NRM chairperson of Kitubulu-Katabi, Eric Kyeyune, was shot dead by SFC soldiers who had been deployed to calm the situation. Two other people were injured in the shooting and rushed to the hospital. Advertisement       Security forces in Wakiso and Entebbe towns yesterday battled supporters of oppositio...