Uganda’s government and that of South Sudan have agreed to deploy a joint police force along their border to fight the growing numbers of travellers being killed in the area reports the Observer.
At least five buses on the Juba to Kampala route have been ambushed with a many people killed in the process for the last four months since the South Sudan President Salva Kiir and His forcer first vice President Riek Machar started fighting.
The joint force is in progress, having started on Sunday after the two East African countries signed an agreement on Saturday.
The two countries agreed to cooperate in areas of border security, highway security, investigations, counter terrorism and crime intelligence, among others. The joint force will also pursue criminal gangs and dismantle terror cells in both countries.
“During the security meeting, we resolved that we should heavily deploy along the Uganda, South Sudan border to make sure that people coming and going to Juba are safe,” said Andrew Felix Kaweesi, the police spokesman
