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Uganda's biggest opposition party on Wednesday filed a case in the constitutional court to nullify a newly enacted law that ...
Ms Lilliane Babirye, who is seeking to contest for the Member of Parliament position on the NUP ticket, said the soldiers are allegedly hired by members of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM ...
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 and displaced hundreds of ...
Authorities from South Sudan said they have retrieved five bodies of SSPDF soldiers from the forest, while one UPDF soldier ...
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 ...
Uganda sent troops to support Kiir when civil war broke out in the country in 2013, just two years after it gained independence from Sudan. The civil war between Kiir and his long-time rival, Riek ...
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 ...
Clashes between South Sudanese and Ugandan forces near the countries' shared border this week killed at least six security ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.