BERLIN, Germany
Uganda's military has severed all military cooperation
with Germany after it accused Berlin's ambassador to Kampala of involvement in
"subversive activities" in the East African country, its spokesperson
said.
Ambassador Mathias Schauer
A spokesperson for
Germany's foreign ministry said at a press conference in Berlin on Monday that
the accusations were "absurd and without any merit and we reject them in
the strongest terms".
The
spokesperson declined to comment further on the nature of the accusations.
The Uganda People's
Defence Forces spokesperson, Chris Magezi, also gave no further details in the
statement he posted on X on Sunday, apart from saying the decision was in
response to "credible intelligence reports".
In
a separate post on the platform on Sunday, Uganda's military chief Gen
Muhoozi Kainerugaba said the military was having problems with Ambassador
Mathias Schauer "as a person".
"It
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," Kainerugaba said.
Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba
The
spokesperson for Uganda's ministry of foreign affairs could not be reached
for comment.
Magezi
gave no details of any existing military cooperation
between Uganda and Germany.
The
German spokesperson said there was no formalized military cooperation between
the two countries.
Uganda has
its troops in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, which is partly
funded by the European Union, of which Germany is a member.
Gen
Muhoozi, the son of President Museveni and widely seen as heir apparent, is
known for his inflammatory posts on social media which have included threats to
Western diplomats in Kampala.
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