The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), General Yoweri Museveni, has highly commended the army as well as commanders and instructors of Singo Training School for being practical and realistic in their training programmes. Quoting the Uganda media Center in Kampala
Kinshasa - Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday his efforts to end fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo were going fairly well and that President Joseph Kabila had not given conditions for talks with the rebels.
Kampala - A rebel group that has waged a low-level insurgency in western Uganda for more than a decade has agreed to enter formal peace talks with the Ugandan government, an official said on Saturday.
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama on Monday will meet at his transition headquarters in Chicago with his Republican former rival John McCain, Obama's transition team said in a statement on Friday. "Monday, president-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will meet in Chicago at transition headquarters.
Moscow - Russia has sold 12 MiG-29 fighter jets to Sudan, Sudanese Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein said during a visit to Moscow on Friday, Russian news agencies reported. "Yes, it's all done. The planes have been bought," the defence minister was quoted as saying to reporters at a briefing in Moscow, in response to a question about a contract for the purchase of the 12 planes.
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