Tag: defence forces

  Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers who are studying air force engineering course at Soroti Flying School are to graduate on March 30th, 2012. The soldiers set to graduate ...

Col. Kiiza Besigye, the head of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) is one of the freedom fighters in Uganda. Besigye, a retired soldier of Uganda Peoples Defence Forces is currently ...

Intelligence briefings from Somalia indicate that Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab fighters are planning to bomb East African countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania,  Burundi and Kenya. Security sources in Uganda ...

There is a grand programme by the ministry of health to evaluate health centres and clinics run by the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces across the country with the purpose of ...

Rwandan army generals and officers who were suspended from the force last week by President Paul Kagame and placed under house arrest have spoken out on their ordeal. Lt. Gen. ...

  A formerUSmarine soldier, Nix Bongomin who was arrested by Uganda Peoples Defence Forces yesterday in northernUgandaover recruiting rebels into the ‘Peoples Patriotic Front’ has denied the charges. He has told ...

Uganda Peoples Defence Forces have started a training programme to prepare its soldiers for deployment to the African Union United Nations hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID). According to a source ...

Lt. Col. Samson Mande has been sighted in Kinshasha town of the Democratic Republic of Congo raising fears in the UPDF circles that he could be planning to invade Uganda. ...

Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) has officially commissioned a health centre III at Moruita in Nakapiripirit district, in southern part of Karamoja sub region. The CDF General Aronda Nyakairima who ...

The Chief of Defence forces General Aronda Nyakairima yesterday flew to Moroto to open up a state of the art garage constructed by BABCON Construction Company and supervised by UPDF ...