{"id":131995,"date":"2025-05-26T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131995\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:12:10","slug":"uganda-suspends-military-cooperation-with-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131995\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda suspends military cooperation with Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1315365_2171338_ugabda_akhbar.jpg\" alt=\"The soldiers of DR Congo. \u2014 AFP\/File\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The soldiers of DR Congo. \u2014 AFP\/File<\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI: Uganda has \u201csuspended\u201d all military cooperation with Germany, its army said on Sunday, claiming the German ambassador \u201cengaged in subversive activities\u201d in the east African country.<\/p>\n<p>The army earlier accused some European embassies of supporting \u201cnegative and traitorous groups\u201d, singling out German ambassador Matthias Schauer. It followed reports that diplomats had criticised the behaviour of President Yoweri Museveni\u00b4s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is head of the army.<\/p>\n<p>Kainerugaba, who is considered most likely to succeed his 80-year-old father as president, is known for his colourful social media posts. He has frequently threatened members of the opposition online and recently boasted of kidnapping and torturing the bodyguard of the country\u00b4s main opposition leader in his basement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Uganda People\u00b4s Defence Forces (UPDF) has with immediate effect suspended all ongoing defence and military cooperation activities with the Federal Republic of Germany,\u201d said army spokesman Chris Magezi on X. \u201cIt has to do with him as a person. He is wholly unqualified to be in Uganda. It has nothing to do with the great German people. Whom I admire a lot,\u201d Kainerugaba wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The soldiers of DR Congo. \u2014 AFP\/File NAIROBI: Uganda has \u201csuspended\u201d all military cooperation with Germany, its army&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6215,2000,299,1824,2597,58139,53236,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-131995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-cooperation","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-suspends","14":"tag-uganda","15":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114571479809493696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}