{"id":16371,"date":"2015-02-05T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16371"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:05:05","slug":"updf-denies-sending-troops-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/updf-denies-sending-troops-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDF denies sending troops to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15215\" style=\"width: 1120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15215\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment.jpg\" alt=\"UPDF soldiers\" width=\"1120\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-212x140.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-235x155.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-318x210.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-950x631.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/UPDF-set-for-regional-deployment-360x238.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1120px) 100vw, 1120px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPDF soldiers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Uganda People&#8217;s Defence Forces (UPDF) has refuted allegations of sending troops to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram militants.<br \/>\nThis follows media reports that the force is preparing to deploy two battalions in the next two weeks to fight the Islamist militant group.<br \/>\nThe army deputy spokesperson Maj. Henry Obbo denies receiving any communication from the Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala about this development.<br \/>\nHe however maintains that the UPDF condemns the activities of Boko Haram and gladly commends the decision of the AU summit this past weekend while Addis Ababa to deploy a 7,500 strong multinational\u00a0 force to fight Boko Haram militants.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes days after the government of Uganda signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Sudan to extend the UPDF stay in the country for a peace keeping mission for another four months.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Herbert Zziwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda People&#8217;s Defence Forces (UPDF) has refuted allegations of sending troops to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram militants. This follows media reports that the force is preparing to deploy two battalions in the next two weeks to fight the Islamist militant group. The army deputy spokesperson Maj. Henry Obbo denies receiving any communication from the Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala about this development. He however maintains that the UPDF condemns the activities of Boko Haram and gladly commends the decision of the AU summit this past weekend while Addis Ababa to deploy a 7,500 strong multinational\u00a0 force to fight Boko Haram militants. The news comes days after the government of Uganda signed a Memorandum of Understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}