UGANDA: SURPRISE EXPRESSED AT UNEXPECTED FIGHTING ON UGANDAN-TANZANIAN BORDER.

Record ID: 375978

  • Title: UGANDA: SURPRISE EXPRESSED AT UNEXPECTED FIGHTING ON UGANDAN-TANZANIAN BORDER.
  • Date: 23rd October 1971
  • Summary: 1. CU Newspaper headline "Uganda airforce defends border" 0.05 2. SV Men reading papers in street 0.11 3. SV Group listening to radio news report 0.20 4. GV People standing around roadside news agent 0.29 5. SV Man reading newspaper PAN along pavement 0.43 6. GV Street scene 0.48 Initials ES. 2132 ES. 2211 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th November 1971 12:00
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  • Location: KAMPALA, UGANDA
  • Country: Uganda
  • Reuters ID: LVA4VSPOWBZ172IA9DFI5G2794MH
  • Story Text: Ugandans have expressed surprise at newspaper and radio accounts of the recent fighting along the Ugandan-Tanzanian border -- for it was widely believed that relations between the two countries were improving. The latest skirmish began on Monday with reports of ground fighting between troops of both countries. This led to alleged mortar bombing of Ugandan frontier villages, and later the Ugandan army command claimed it had used aircraft to bomb and destroy the Tanzanian army camp from where the alleged offensives were organised. Twenty-two civilians were believed to have died in the fighting which seemed to have ended by Thursday (October 21).
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