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The Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel accused of killing a 65-year-old man in Oyam District is to spend the rest of his life behind bars after court on Tuesday sentenced him to life imprisonment. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces…

A Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier who shot and killed a lay reader riding on a motorcycle with his wife in Kasese District last week has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after the army court found him guilty of murder.…

Brig Gen Jackson Bell Tushabe, one of the National Resistance Army (now Uganda People's Defence Forces - UPDF) daredevil fighters has died. The one-star general, who rose to fame mostly due to his love for football, died at Nakasero…

The Commander Land Forces (CLF), Lt Gen Peter Elwelu has presided over the pass out of 93 Company commanders, four of whom were female Officers. The graduation of the Officers who had completed six months of intensive training on…

By Jackie Batamuliza I woke up to 'not so good' cartoons about this fallen soldier and I felt the need to share these views which I hope turn out understandable enough to ease our nerves whether now or in the future when we meet…

On June 9, Ugandans woke up to the sad news that Maj Gen (Rtd) Kasirye Gwanga had breathed his last aged 68. According to family and military sources, Gwanga died at Nakasero hospital where he was admitted on May 18. A reliable source…

One of the bush-war fighters that participated in the final war that captured Kampala, Maj Gen Kasirye Ggwanga is dead. Gen Ggwanga was first admitted in April to the UPDF Senior Officers Diagnostic Centre based in Mbuya where doctors were…

Nine members of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent in Somalia are under isolation after coming into contact with a confirmed case who is in Mogadishu. On Wednesday evening, UPDF confirmed a soldier attached to the…

The Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr Byarugaba Baterana, has this morning relived critical UPDF Doctors, Nurses and other experts of the support rendered at the hospital in the fight against Covid 19. This comes…

UPDF troops under African Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) repulsed an Al-shabab attack on their position near Barawe Airport in the southwestern lower shebelle region of Somalia. According to Defense Spokesperson Brig. Richard Karemire, the…