NEWS UPDATES AT 9 O’CLOCK WITH ORANGE. Security is still lacking at Entebbe International Airport. The airport does not measure up to the rising terrorist threats the country is facing. The Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, has said that at night there are no security lights, Entebbe uses old technology to screen passengers, has few and overstretched officers, no security and a dilapidated fence which allows multiple points in the airport. Police recently issued a list of names of nine suspected Al-Shabab terrorists and rallied the public and security agencies to be on the lookout and block the suspects from entering the country. Other airfields in Uganda equally have poor security and are at a higher risk. Gen Kayihura was speaking at the passing out of 49 Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officers at Police Training School in Masindi District over the weekend. The 4,480 remaining kits that were required to register citizens in the national identity cards registration have arrived. Minister for Internal Affairs, Gen Aronda Nyakairima, has confirmed that the equipment will be distributed across the country today. This is expected to avert the various hiccups the exercise has faced in the last three months. Eight thousand kits comprising cameras, laptops and the biometric data machine were required for registration but only 3,520 kits had been procured. Meanwhile, non-citizens have been warned against registering as the system will catch up with them. The 9 month French training of UPDF officers by the French Embassy has ended. The French lessons were conducted at the Junior Staff College at Gadifi barracks. The lessons sought to avoid distortion of intelligence information by translators hired from French speaking countries. Coordinator French language Department in UPDF, Lt Charles Okurut says that most of the soldiers under UN peace keeping Missions operate in French speaking countries and hence the need for them to collect their own sufficient intelligent information than using translators in war zones. The Italian Navy has found about 30 bodies in a fishing boat with hundreds of migrants between Sicily and the North African coast. The migrants appeared to have been asphyxiated. The grim discovery was made when rescuers boarded the vessel to evacuate a number of people said to be in distress, two of them pregnant women. The fishing boat with about 600 migrants is now being towed to the town of Pozzallo, southern Sicily. The Italian authorities say more than 60,000 migrants have already landed in southern Italy this year, and that the record of 63,000 set in 2011 is likely to be broken. Italy - who bears the brunt of migrants making the perilous crossing in the Mediterranean - has repeatedly appealed for help from the EU to tackle the problem. North Korea says it will put two detained US men on trial, accusing them of committing hostile acts. Matthew Miller and Jeffrey Fowle had been investigated and would be brought before a court. Suspicions about the two men had been confirmed by evidence and the pairs own statements, but no further details have been given. A US-Korean missionary, Kenneth Bae, is currently serving a 15-year sentence. He was arrested in November 2012 and later convicted of trying to overthrow the North Korean government. US attempts to secure his release have so far proved unsuccessful, despite fears over his health. RADIOCITY NEWS: BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU!
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 06:13:03 +0000
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