{"id":49762,"date":"2021-08-17T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49762"},"modified":"2021-08-17T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:49:46","slug":"uganda-monitoring-afghanistan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-monitoring-afghanistan-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda monitoring Afghanistan crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">By Ritah Kemigisa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">The government of Uganda is monitoring the volatile situation in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">This has been revealed by the International Affairs minister, Okello Oryem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">Speaking during the Morning at NTV show, Oryem says the government is observing and studying the situation closely so that they can get the feeling of what&#8217;s happening on ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">\u201cWe as government are monitoring the situation very closely, we are working closely with our other allies, US, Europeans who have contacts and embassies there to try and make sure we get the feeling of what is happening on ground first hand,\u201d says Mr Oryem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">The Taliban have since taken over Afghanistan and there have been scenes of panic at Kabul airport as desperate residents try to flee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">Oryem has asked Ugandans who could be stuck to seek help at the nearest embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">He has revealed that as a government, they do not know the number of Ugandans living in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">He has blamed this on <\/span><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">Ugandans themselves who don&#8217;t want to share information with the Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">\u201cI don&#8217;t know why Ugandans don&#8217;t want to share information with the Government. We want this information to help you, not anything else,\u201d saying Mr Oryem adding that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">\u201cThe agencies that take Ugandans there are very cagey about the people they took because they know we have no agreement with that country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">Oryem however says in June last year over 130 Ugandans, majorly security guards and chefs were evacuated from the country following the outbreak of covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"16pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"21.33333396911621\">Taliban has since announced \u201camnesty\u201d for all in Afghanistan and urges women to join its government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa The government of Uganda is monitoring the volatile situation in Afghanistan. This has been revealed by the International Affairs minister, Okello Oryem. Speaking during the Morning at NTV show, Oryem says the government is observing and studying the situation closely so that they can get the feeling of what&#8217;s happening on ground. \u201cWe as government are monitoring the situation very closely, we are working closely with our other allies, US, Europeans who have contacts and embassies there to try and make sure we get the feeling of what is happening on ground first hand,\u201d says Mr Oryem. The Taliban have since taken over Afghanistan and there have been scenes of panic at Kabul airport as desperate residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49762","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\/49762"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}