Gen Katumba rushes to Mogadishu after attack on UPDF

The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Katumba Wamala yesterday rushed to Mogadishu to meet UPDF commanders a day after Somali insurgents attacked a Ugandan army base, killing unspecified number of soldiers.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

BBC

Somali MP killed in Mogadishu attack

A Somali MP is shot dead in the capital Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamists, one of a number of violent incidents in the war-torn country.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Al-Shabab launch Mogadishu attack

Somali jihadist group al-Shabab launches a major attack on an intelligence headquarters in the capital Mogadishu.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Feb

UPDF to retire 1,400 soldiers

The Uganda People’s Defence Force has approved the retirement of at least 1,400 soldiers, military sources said.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Apr

We’ll not leave South Sudan: UPDF

>The Uganda People’s Defence Force will only leave South Sudan if there is an alternative security arrangement, Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Land Forces has said.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Feb

Foreign deployment part of our ideology: UPDF

The army has said the recent troop deployment in neighbouring countries is part of the revolutionary ideals that created the National Resistance Army in 1981.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Oct

Over 100 UPDF officers in S. Africa for training

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has flown a total of 108 of its troops to South Africa for African Union training.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Dec

UPDF captures Somali territory from Al-Shabaab

The Somali National Forces supported by African Union Forces from Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent have overpowered Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, flashing them out of Aysoora town, located 280km south West of Mogadishu.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Nov

Museveni praises UPDF leadership for lethal army

President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, has praised the UPDF leadership for adopting effective methods of training that are the hallmark of a modern, well equipped, and lethal army.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Apr

UPDF bosses ‘sold war fuel to Somalis’

>UPDF commanders on the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) sold fuel for operations to Somali civilians, a military witness has told the army court.

 

Share