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UPDF investigates Al Shabaab role in Uganda crashed planes

  Uganda peoples Defence Forces in conjunction with US air force and Kenya are investigating claims that the Al Shabaab militants had a key role in Uganda’s crashed military war planes. The three Uganda planes crashed down in Kenya forests on Sunday last week under mysterious circumstances. The Kenya rescue team on Thursday recovered the […]

UPDF and Amson under fire from Al Shabaab

The UPDF and AMSON have come under direct firing from Al Shabaab Fighters in Somalia. This happened on Sunday 12th, August 2012 when the suspected Al Shabaab fighters reportedly gunned down threeUganda attack jet fighters that were destined toSomalia to demolish the Al Shabaab territories. Even though the UPDF spokesperson, Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye argues […]

Al Shabab terrorists use Entebbe airport to run their operations

  Intelligence reports have revealed that sections of Al Shabab fighters in Somalia have penetrated Uganda’s international airport whereby the members of the said terrorist group use the airport to run their activities at ease. We have also been told that the rebels use Nairobo as their base after Entebbe. The intelligence officers were also […]

US forces arrest Joseph Kony

It sounds unbelievable but it is true. The most wanted man by the US garrison and Uganda soldiers is about to be arrested. Sources in Uganda’s army, the UPDF tell us that using technological help from the US, the army has relocated the place where the LRA leader Joseph Kony is hiding in the Central […]

Army man kills friend for moving with his wife

  An army man in Uganda killed his male friend because he returned home with his wife. Lieutenant Colonel John Kaye is now facing murder charges at the Court Martial in Kampala. The colonel denies the charges and asks for bail. It is said that Kaye shot dead Steven Kabuye when he turned up with […]

Senior UN diplomat calls upon Ugandans to join struggle against Museveni

Former UN diplomat Dr. Olara Otunnu has called upon all Ugandans within and outsideUgandato join the struggle against president Museveni’s regime. Otunnu says Ugandans need to join the struggle such that they restore sanity in their country. Otunnu says that the government inKampalahas walked away from its duties of working for the people. The former […]

UPDF explains why out of 64 top UPDF officers, 55 are from western Uganda?

More than two years after Aswa MP Reagan Okumu raised the issue of top UPDF officers being from one region, western Uganda on the floor of Parliament, the top leadership of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces as well as the Special Forces Group, formerly the presidential guard brigade, remains dominated by officers from western Uganda. […]

UPDF soldiers asked to restrain from speaking to journalists

  The 1995 Constitution of Uganda provides for freedom of speech, expression of opinion but this is not the case with the UPDF soldiers. A senior army officer in UPDF rang one of our informers this morning and wondered why the commander in chief of Uganda’s armed forces reportedly put standing orders that restrain soldiers […]

UPDF soldiers to graduate in air force

  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 have studied for three years and they have undergone training in contravention of international and regional aviation standards. The 42 students will be awarded certificates […]

What some Ugandans think about America’s interests in LRA war

  Many people across the world have expressed mixed reactions about the content of the video about LRA war and its commander Joseph Kony being played in USA and Europe. Some Ugandans and Africans have welcomed USA’s interests in ending the bloody LRA war. But others complain that when Joseph Kony was maiming people in […]