{"id":26779,"date":"2016-07-11T01:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/we-re-not-deploying-in-s-sudan-updf\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T01:12:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:12:32","slug":"we-re-not-deploying-in-s-sudan-updf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/we-re-not-deploying-in-s-sudan-updf\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re not deploying in S.Sudan- UPDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Uganda people\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) has said it has no intention of deploying in South Sudan following fresh fights in the yoUganda people\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) has said it has no intention of deploying in South Sudan following fresh fights in the youngest East African country.}<\/p>\n<p>The army spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda told Daily Monitor\u201c Do not speculate. I have told you that the UPDF is not deploying in South Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Col Ankunda tweeted saying: \u201cLet me be clear: UPDF has not deployed in South Sudan. We do not have even a single soldier in Juba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come after speculations that the Uganda was likely to deploy its forces in South Sudan to contain the situation like the case was in December 2013 when fights broke out between government army and rebels forces led by vice president Riek Machar who had been sacked.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised interview on Aljazeera, the S. Sudanese minister for Information, Michael Makuei Lueth flanked by minister for Mining, Taban Deng Gai called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh clashes which broke out on Friday between government forces royal to President Kiir and those loyal to Machar have so far left 270 people feared dead and hundreds displaced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our country, why should we live in chaos every now and then. We believe everybody who is rational in this country will abide by the orders of the President and a cease fire will be respected,\u201d Mr Lueth said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of you have observed that President Salva Kiir is in total control and the people of this country are backing him.The officers should implement the orders of the Commander in Chief,\u201d he added.ungest East African country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13409 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/latest004_pix-4.jpg\" alt=\"Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Land Forces addresses UPDF soldiers at Juba Air Force base in South Sudan in April 2014. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Uganda people\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) has said it has no intention of deploying in South Sudan following fresh fights in the yoUganda people\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) has said it has no intention of deploying in South Sudan following fresh fights in the youngest East African country.} The army spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda told Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}