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KAMPALA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan military said Tuesday it is on high alert along its border with South Sudan following deadly clashes over the past two weeks that have left four soldiers dead ...
Authorities from South Sudan said they have retrieved five bodies of SSPDF soldiers from the forest, while one UPDF soldier ...
Addressing the retired officers, President Museveni thanked them and other officers who died during the liberation struggle for their contribution to Uganda.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF), presided over the retirement send-off ceremony for seven generals at State ...
Uganda sent troops to support Kiir when civil war broke out in the country in 2013, just two years after it gained ...
In a sharply critical report, two research groups have raised a chilling alarm: the country’s military is no longer simply a tool of state power; it is the state. Titled Guns Everywhere: The Military ...
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has been in the news this week. Last week, the Commander-in-Chief, the all-powerful Gen Yoweri T Museveni, also known as the ‘Ssabalwanyi’ (chief ...
The Deputy Chief of Defence Forces, Lt Gen Sam Okiding, has urged Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) Defence Attachés and Advisors to act as committed advocates of Uganda’s interests in their ...
Amid the Rwanda/M23–DRC fighting, there was a “rapid military build-up” by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, the report said. Troops significantly increased ...
The Allied Democratic Forces militants attacked the village early Tuesday morning, said the Uganda People’s Defence Forces spokesperson Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye, without providing further details.
Lt. Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, land forces commander of the Uganda People's Defense Force took part in a U.S. Army Africa command visit recently.
The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), the east African country's military, said the deaths resulted from a push to quell violence by cattle rustlers in Karamoja region since last July.