{"id":17247,"date":"2015-04-03T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2015-04-03T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T08:50:46","slug":"updf-to-work-with-foreign-missions-to-curb-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/updf-to-work-with-foreign-missions-to-curb-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDF to work with foreign missions to curb terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7714\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ankunda-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7714\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Ankunda-2.jpg\" alt=\"UPDF spokesperson Lt. Col Paddy Ankunda\" width=\"212\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UPDF spokesperson Lt. Col Paddy Ankunda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces have revealed plans to work closely with foreign missions in the region to fight terrorism.<br \/>\nThis comes after gun men linked to al-Shabab Islamist militants attacked Garissa University in north-eastern Kenya killing atleast 147\u00a0 people, injuring over 70 while hundreds remain unaccounted for.<br \/>\nNow the UPDF spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda says the spectrum of the threats have changed, requiring new methods of curbing them;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Kenyan government has named Mohamed Kuno, a high-ranking al-Shabab official, as the mastermind of the attack, placing a bounty of $217,000 on him.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the African Union has condemned the killing of innocent people by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Garissa, Kenya. In a statement, the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of AMISOM, Ambassador Maman Sidikou has expressed outrage at what he describes as Al Shabaab\u2019s attempt to destroy the fabric of brotherhood.<br \/>\nHe has condemned the violence against innocent youths studying to improve their future for the overall benefit of their country in particular and the region at large.<br \/>\nHe notes that this is another act of desperation by Al Shabaab, which has significantly been destroyed inside Somalia, and that such despicable attacks will not deter the collective effort to improving the situation in Somalia in order to contribute to a safer region.<br \/>\nAmbassador Sidikou also condoles with the relatives and friends of these innocent victims of yesterday\u2019s attack and prays for the quick recovery of the injured.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Catherine Ageno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces have revealed plans to work closely with foreign missions in the region to fight terrorism. This comes after gun men linked to al-Shabab Islamist militants attacked Garissa University in north-eastern Kenya killing atleast 147\u00a0 people, injuring over 70 while hundreds remain unaccounted for. Now the UPDF spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda says the spectrum of the threats have changed, requiring new methods of curbing them; Meanwhile, the Kenyan government has named Mohamed Kuno, a high-ranking al-Shabab official, as the mastermind of the attack, placing a bounty of $217,000 on him. Meanwhile, the African Union has condemned the killing of innocent people by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Garissa, Kenya. In a statement, the Special Representative of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7714,"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-17247","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\/17247"}],"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=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}