UPDF Somalia budget up by 78% Shs 672m per day, 245bn per year The UPDF is to spend Shs 672m every day on its operations in Somalia this financial year, The Observer can reveal. Available documents indicate that the money Uganda will pay for the presence of 6,700 UPDF troops in the chaos-marred county will increase by 78 per cent.  The operations previously cost Shs 376m per day. This appears to contradict the widely held view that any major [...]

  Ghanaian president dies, deputy sworn in   John Atta Mills died suddenly on Tuesday, hours after being rushed to a military hospital. His vice president, John Dramani Mahama, has been sworn in as president for the remaining five months of his term. Ghana’s parliament convened for an emergency session late on Tuesday, swearing in a replacement president after the death of 68-year-old John Atta Mills. It was the first time in Ghana’s history that such a move had to [...]