{"id":12135,"date":"2019-11-13T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2019-11-13T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T11:34:10","slug":"new-force-to-reinforce-security-in-rwenzori-region-created-by-the-updf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/13\/new-force-to-reinforce-security-in-rwenzori-region-created-by-the-updf\/","title":{"rendered":"New Force to Reinforce Security in Rwenzori Region Created by The UPDF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following threats of attack, the Uganda Peoples&#8217; Defence Force (UPDF) has created a mountain Division to reinforce security in the Rwenzori region.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a statement issued by the army on Wednesday, the fully-fledged Division will have its headquarters at Muhooti Barracks, Kabarole District.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The region has been under the threat of the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) now located in&nbsp;Eastern DRC,&#8221; UPDF said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the inauguration of the force, the Chief of Defence Forces, General David Muhoozi said that there was an urgent need to create a mountain Division in order to have&nbsp;a specific force that focuses on issues regarding the Rwenzori region which is mountainous.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Division is commanded by Brig Gen Moses Kwikiriza formerly the second in command of the&nbsp;third Infantry Division.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mountain Division stretches from Katunguru in Kasese district to Mubende and Kyegegwa districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;ADF and other negative forces still destabilize the eastern part of DRC and this creates greater threat to our country, the formation of this Division was long overdue.&#8221; Gen Muhoozi\u00a0said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following threats of attack, the Uganda Peoples&#8217; Defence Force (UPDF) has created a mountain Division to reinforce security in the Rwenzori region.\u00a0 According to a statement issued by the army on Wednesday, the fully-fledged Division will have its headquarters at Muhooti Barracks, Kabarole District.&nbsp; &#8220;The region has been under the threat of the Allied Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13200,"featured_media":12136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}