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The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has closed all its borders with Rwanda as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate following Rwanda's claim to support the M23 rebels fighting the Congo army. The Petit Barrier border in Goma town will be closed from 2pm to 1am to allow businesses to go on their activities. Earlier, a DRC soldier crossed the border into Rwanda where he shot and injured two Rwandan policemen before the soldier was shot and killed. Meanwhile, a group of M23 fighters have shot and shot down a DRC military plane near Goma town. The spokesman for the rebels Majro Willy Ngoma has told the Voice of America writer in Goma that they shot down the plane because it had entered their fortress with the aim of attacking them. There are no reports of deaths or injuries so far. 📸;  VOA Video.

A total of 228 counter terrorism officers  have today 17-6-2022 completed  a 5 months  basic counter terrorism course, while 64 completed a one month and two weeks Scenes of crime course, at the Police  Counter Terrorism Training School, Olilim in Katakwi District.  AIGP Edward Ochom, the Director Operations presided over the closing ceremony and urged the officers to put the knowledge and skills acquired to improve security, safety and service delivery to the public.  AIGP Godfrey Golooba the Director Human Resource Development noted that the police will continue providing routine refresher courses and retraining. He urged the officers to maintain self discipline as enshrined in the UPF standard operating procedures. The training was meant to help in the fight against terror and foster mordern techniques of crime scene management.

   👆Arrested Officials Entering into State House Anti-Corruption Unit Van at Arua CPS that Later Whisked Them to Kampala 17-6-2022. The police detective attached to Maracha District CPS, whose name is withheld here for security reasons, will soon be rendered jobless after he betrayed his "Ethics and Oath of Secrecy" in security job by tipping the top Officials in the department of Education, Engineering and Accounting who were to be arrested in their offices on 6-6-2022 morning on orders of RDC Mr Ayikobua Festus and Minister of State for Economic monitoring and planning Hon Peter Ogwang over abuse of office and mismanagement of government funds. His action that made the Officials fled out of the District headquarter through emergency exits and made them become fugitives of justuce, will have to pay with his job. From a telephone communication record from Kampala , it’s discovered that, the police officer was on daily basis briefing one of the arrested District Officials (na

Uganda Police Force informs the general public that the Anti Stock Theft Unit, (ASTU) is in the final process of changing its Operation Uniform. The unit which is directly charged with the responsibility of mitigating cattle thefts and is mostly operating in Karamoja and the neighbouring Districts is changing its uniform for easy identification and to suit the environment its forces are operating in.  The change in uniform will take effect from next week. The uniform formerly used by the ASTU will now only be used by Police personnel attached to the Field Force unit, FFU. This is to encourage members of the public not to be alarmed when they notice the change. AIP LONGOLE MIKE Ag. PRO MT MOROTO

 A new strain of Android malware has been spotted in the wild targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy, just weeks after a coordinated law enforcement operation dismantled FluBot. The information stealing trojan, codenamed MaliBot by F5 Labs, is as feature-rich as its counterparts, allowing it to steal credentials and cookies, bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes, and abuse Android's Accessibility Service to monitor the victim's device screen. MaliBot is known to primarily disguise itself as cryptocurrency mining apps such as Mining X or The CryptoApp that are distributed via fraudulent websites designed to attract potential visitors into downloading them. It also takes another leaf out of the mobile banking trojan playbook in that it employs smishing as a distribution vector to proliferate the malware by accessing an infected smartphone's contacts and sending SMS messages containing links to the malware. "MaliBot's

Fracas ensued in Kololo Seed SS today Thursday 16-6-2022 after the RDC for Maracha District Mr Ayikobua Festus in company of Media guys, NRM Sub-county Chairpersons, military investigation officers from the rank of Major, Captains, Sergeants and other detectives from State House Anti-corruption Unit ordered the foreman at the site to vacate the area immediately  to avoid tampering with some of the evidences at the construction scene. Minutes later after we left with the officials, the foreman whose name we were unable to get by the time of writing this story, turned his anger on the Deputy Headmaster Mr Martin and threatened to beat him. He alleged that, it's the Deputy Headmaster and other teachers who are reporting all the mess at the site to the public. When the Deputy Headmaster asked the foreman to join him in recording the remaining items in the store as directed by the RDC before the foreman vacates the site, the Guy instead walked out of anger after threatening to a

People in Maracha are now holding their Members of Parliament to account principally as law-making role and ability to oversee the development in Maracha. Today Africa News went to Maracha district getting views of some people about the parliamentary performance of the Members of Parliament. In the assessment, most voters in Maracha were not happy with the performance of some MPs lamenting that their performance has not been satisfactory when it comes to the real duty of parliament. “I follow parliamentary proceedings regularly but I have not seen any of our MPs participating effectively like other MPs”, Rofino from Paranga said. Milika Munduru from Oluvu: ” From the beginning we thought we were electing good performing representatives who will speak for Maracha in the parliament but their performance has not satisfied us”. According to her, she has not heard some of the MPs on the floor of parliament. struggling to speak like other MPs are doing. Most voters contacted by Today Africa