Dar es Salaam, March 11 -- UGANDA: Uganda has deployed special forces to South Sudans capital, Juba, to help President Salva Kiir to “secure it”, Ugandas military chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said.

The move comes as tensions escalate between Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar, raising fears that their fragile peace deal could collapse and a conflict could resume.

Gen Kainerugaba did not give reasons for the deployment to the neighbouring state but said that any move against Kiir “is a declaration of war against Uganda”.

“We shall protect the entire territory of South Sudan like it was our own,” he added on the social media platform X.

South Sudans government has not yet commented on the deployment...