Major AUSSOM Decision Expected as Museveni Chairs Leaders’ Session
KAMPALA, Uganda — President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is chairing a closed consultative session of Heads of State and Government at the Extraordinary Summit of Troop-Contr...
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Gen Muhoozi Calls for Sustained Backing for Somalia
Gen Muhoozi hostel military leaders from countries contributing troops to SomaliaUganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, on Wednesday called for sus...
Bad News for Bobi Wine as M7 Receives Trump Phone Call, Begging for UPDF Deployment to Stabilize & Reconstruct The Ruined Palestine Territory of Gaza
With the acquiescence of the UN Security Council, as Russia and China abstained, President Donald Trump late last year proclaimed his “Gaza Board for Peace” under whi...
From AU to UN, East Africa holds the line as peace missions shrink
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inspects a guard of honour during the flagging-off of Uganda’s first AU peacekeeping contingent to Somalia on March 1, 2007. East Afri...
Gen. Muhoozi Chairs High-Level Joint Staff Meeting to Assess UPDF’s Battle Readiness
Entebbe, Uganda | WATCHDOG UGANDA | Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting of the Uganda People’...
UPDF female soldiers recognised during Women’s Day event in Mogadishu
Female troops serving under AUSSOM were praised for their courage, professionalism, and contribution to peacekeeping in Somalia as they joined other security personnel to...
UPDF Changes Command Of United Nations Guard Unit In Somalia
The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force contingent serving under the United Nations Guard Unit in Somalia has marked a change of command, with Lt Col Peter Barigye handing ov...
CDF Appoints New Deputy Commander of the UPDF Land Forces
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has promoted Brigadier General Joseph Musoke Ssemwanga to Major General and appointed him Deputy Commander of UPDF Land Forces, replacing Majo...
Gen. Muhoozi Signals UPDF Withdrawal from Somalia over Funding
Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has said Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) could withdraw completely from Somalia by the end of 2026 u...
Gen. Kayanja takes over UPDF contingent in Somalia.
Brig. Gen. Jackson Kayanja takes command of the Ugandan contingent in Somalia, succeeding Brig. Gen. Joseph Ssemwanga Musoke in the African Union mission.MOGADISHU, Somal...