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Latest News & Events

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Mar272023
Operation Shujaa

Update On Operation Shujaa In DR Congo

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Mar242023
Diplomatic Partnership

UPDF Hosts United Nations Delegation On Fact Finding Mission

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Mar232023
Welfare

UPDF Receives A Donation Of Medical Incubators From Stanbic Bank

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Mar222023
Missions

Uganda Battle Group XXXV Medics Bid Farewell To ATMIS

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Mar222023
Training

UPDF Air Force Passes Out MI 28NE Attack Helicopters Pilots And Engineers

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Mar192023
Obituary

UPDF Mourns Colonel Richard Kiwanuka

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Mar192023
Missions

Lower Shabelle Region Governor Commends Joint Security Forces For Maintaining Peace In Region

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Mar192023
Construction

UPDF Inspectorate Team Heads To Northern Uganda

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Mar172023
Missions

UPDF Sends 2450 Strong UPDF Troops To Serve In Somalia Under UN And AU

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Mar92023
Bilateral Relations

General Mbadi And Lieutenant General Walker Discuss Deepening Levels Of Defence Co-operation

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Mar82023
Missions

UPDF Female Soldiers In Somalia Celebrate International Women’s Day

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Mar82023
Missions

Dr. Liban Asuman Calls For Extra Vigilance Against Al-Shabaab During Ramadan

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Mar72023
Bilateral Relations

General Mbadi Roots For Memorandum Of Understanding With Togolese Armed Forces

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Mar72023
Press Releases

Press Release

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Mar62023
Usalama Kwa Wote

Uganda Joint Security Forces Hand Over Turkana Cattle Rustling Suspects To Kenya Authority

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Mar22023
Training

President Museveni Commissions Cadets, Calls For Preservation Of Health

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Mar12023
Press Statement

False Allegations Of Torture By NUP Against Security Agencies 01 March 2023

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Feb272023
Missions

UPDF Changes Command Of The United Nations Guard Unit In Somalia

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Feb262023
Missions

UPDF And Partners Clear Buufow – Janaale Main Supply Route

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Feb252023
Tarehe Sita

President Museveni Commends FRONASA Revolution

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Feb252023
Training

UPDF Troops Acquire Ideological And Combat Skills

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Feb232023
Regional Security

Uganda, US And Allied Partner Nations Forces End Largest Military Exercise In Kenya

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Feb202023
Security

UPDF Hands Over Recovered Animals

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Feb202023
Missions

Deputy Commander Land Force Flags Off UNGU IX, Calls For Discipline

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Feb192023
Training

UPDF Officers Graduate From MUK, With Bachelors In Defence Studies

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Feb192023
MissionsOperation Shujaa

UPDF Hands Over Rescued Abductees To DR Congo Army

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Feb182023
Missions

UPDF Soldiers Of UNGU VIII Decorated With UN Medals

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Feb172023
Missions

BG XXXVI Commander Meets Somali Local Leaders, Discuss Al – Shabaab Defeat

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Feb152023
Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE

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Feb132023
Regional Security

Justified Accord Military Exercise Kicks Off In Kenya

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Feb92023
Training

UPDF Contingent Flagged Off For A Multinational Field Training Exercise In Kenya

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Feb72023
Bilateral Relations

Don’t Hesitate Sending Your Troops To Uganda For Training – Gen Mbadi Urges Malian Armed Forces

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Feb72023
Diplomatic Partnership

UPDF And South African Defence Forces Military Police Sign Defence Cooperation Agreement

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Feb62023
Tarehe Sita

Climax Of The Army Week As 4 Division Marks Tarehe Sita

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Feb62023
Tarehe Sita

President Museveni Commends Revolutionists, Calls For Continuous Transformation

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Feb52023
CSRMissionsTarehe Sita

UPDF Commemorates Tarehe Sita In Somalia

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Feb32023
Tarehe Sita

Nakasongola Town Residents Join UPDF Troops In Cleaning Of Nakasongola Town

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Feb32023
Tarehe Sita

Greater Mbarara Youth Leaders Urged To Keep Learning And Respect National Service

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Feb32023
CSRTarehe Sita

Rushere Town Council Mayor Commends UPDF On Discipline

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Feb32023
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And South Africa Meet On Defence Cooperation

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Feb22023
CSRTarehe SitaUsalama Kwa Wote

Hundreds Join UPDF To Mark Tarehe Sita Launch In Karamoja

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Feb22023
CSRTarehe Sita

UPDF Quick Impact Project Excites Nshwere Primary School Management

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Feb22023
CSRTarehe Sita

UPDF Fires Up Ibanda District

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Feb22023
Court Martial

Four Convicted By Division Court Martial For Illegal Possession Of Military Stores

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Feb22023
Tarehe Sita

“Let Us All Maintain Peace,” Says Lt Gen Elwelu

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Feb12023
CSRTarehe Sita

Residents Of Kazo Flock Medical Camps Because Of The Trust They Have In The UPDF – Lt Col Dr. Lopez Mukuye

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Feb12023
CSRTarehe Sita

It Is Our Responsibility To Jointly Work With The People For Sustainable Progress – Brig Gen Bamwiseki

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Jan312023
Tarehe Sita

UPDF Continues To Recognise Fallen Heroes

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Jan302023
CSRTarehe Sita

“UPDF Will Never Desert The Population,” Says Gen Muhoozi

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Jan302023
CSRTarehe Sita

UPDF Gives Back To Mbarara

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Jan302023
Tarehe Sita

Rwemikoma Model Primary School Project By UPDF Engineers Takes Shape

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Jan302023
CSRTarehe Sita

“Medical Camps Are For Sharing Knowledge,” Says Brig Gen Kiyengo

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Jan302023
Tarehe Sita

Hon. Rwamirama Urges Locals From Isingiro District To Continue Preserving Peace

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Jan292023
Missions

United States Representative To The United Nations Applauds UPDF For Serving Beyond Its Mandate In Somalia

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Jan292023
Tarehe Sita

We Are Very Proud of UPDF’s Direction Into A Productive Force – Hon. Huda Oleru

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Jan292023
Usalama Kwa Wote

Leaders, Community Vow To Maintain Peace In  Karamoja

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Jan282023
Tarehe Sita

The People Of Greater Mbarara Contributed A Great Deal Towards The Liberation Struggle: Minister Ssempijja

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Jan272023
Tarehe Sita

Deputy Speaker Commends UPDF For Professionalism

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Jan272023
Welfare

Wazalendo Sacco Gives Back To The Community

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Jan252023
Press Statement

Press Statement By The Minister Of State For Defence And Veteran Affairs/Veteran Affairs On The Occasion Of Liberation Day 2023

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Jan252023
Handover

Maj Gen Olum Urges Officers On Discipline As Key Aspect

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Jan202023
Training

Uganda’s Security Is Guaranteed – Lt Gen Muhanga

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Jan202023
Construction

UPDF Inspects Health Centre Projects By UPDF Engineers In Western Uganda

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Jan182023
Training

National Defence College – Uganda Pioneer Students Graduate

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Jan162023
Uncategorized

UPDF General Court Martial Sentences One And Sets Two Others Free

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Jan132023
Sports

Military Police Brigade Headquarters Wins Commandants Cup

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Jan112023
Education

UPDF And UPF Meet To Harmonize Education, Sports And Culture

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Jan102023
Usalama Kwa Wote

UPDF Commanders Get Legal Guidance In Karamoja Sub-Region

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Jan72023
Training

Gen Saleh Urges NDC Students To Study Own Works And Challenge Themselves To Critical Thinking

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Jan62023
Sports

UPDF Football Club Gets New CEO

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Jan62023
Press Statement

Indiscipline Will Always Be Punished

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Jan52023
Uncategorized

UPDF Monitoring Team Inspects Infrastructural Projects Under The Engineers Brigade

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Jan22023
Missions

UPDF Existence In Somalia Is To Promote Pan Africanism

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Dec232022
Training

Deputy CDF Passes Out Senior Non-Commissioned Officers

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Dec222022
Missions

“UPDF Has Foot Prints In The History Of Somalia”-President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

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Dec212022
Training

The Entire Country Depends On You; Brig Gen Gureme Tells Marines Soldiers

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Dec202022
Missions

“I Trust Brig Gen Omola Will Deliver In Somalia”- CLF

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Dec192022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Karamoja-Teso Subregions Push For Continued Co-Existence

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Dec162022
Training

Deputy CDF Implores Graduands To Practice The Acquired Ideological Skills

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Dec162022
Welfare

Deputy Commander Land Force Commissions New Wazalendo Sacco Branch In Mbarara

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Dec162022
Press Releases

General Security Update On UPDF Operations

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Dec152022
Handover

CDF Gen Mbadi Officiates    Bombo Handover, Calls For Preservation Of Discipline

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Dec152022
Missions

UPDF’s Brig Gen Keith Katungi Commended For Promoting Harmony And Pan-Africanism

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Dec152022
Press Releases

Press Conference

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Dec142022
Welfare

WSACCO Visits Gen Kayihura’s Farm, Commends Him For Effective Loan Utilization

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Dec142022
CIMIC

UPDF Joins Development Partners To Celebrate International Human Rights Day

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Dec122022
Missions

UPDF Deploys More Troops In Somalia

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Dec102022
Missions

“We Are Proud And Satisfied With The Work Of The UPDF In Somalia”-AU Special Representative To Somalia

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Dec82022
Welfare

Military Police Cautioned Against Investing In Liabilities

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Dec72022
Health

Chief Of Defence Forces Hails UPDF Medics For Fighting Ebola

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Dec72022
Press Releases

Promotion And Appointments In UPDF

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Dec72022
Missions

Members Of Parliament Visit UPDF Troops In Somalia

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Dec62022
CIMIC

Empower Your Spouses, UN Advises UPDF Militants

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Dec52022
Bilateral Relations

National Defence College – Kenya Students Hailed For Promoting EAC Agenda

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Dec32022
Missions

Somali Local Leaders Urged To Cooperate With Security Forces To Defeat Al-Shabaab

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Nov302022
CSRMissions

UPDF Troops Supply Free Safe Water To Carshanley IDP Camp In Somalia

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Nov292022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Inter-District Security Team Sets Strategy To Consolidate Peace In Sebei, Bugisu And Karamoja

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Nov282022
Regional Security

Uganda Remains Committed To The Eastern Africa Standby Force

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Nov262022
Missions

ATMIS Forces Launch 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender Based Violence

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Nov222022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Security – Leaders Recover Guns In Karamoja Sub Region

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Nov182022
Press Statement

Attack On UPDF Soldiers On Guard Duties

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Nov172022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Karamoja Senior Leaders Vow To Curb Cross Border Criminality

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Nov172022
Regional Security

Eastern Africa Chiefs Of Defence Intelligence Meet In Kampala

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Nov162022
Workshop

UPDF Takes Stock Of Lessons Learnt In Somalia Mission

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Nov102022
Uncategorized

Minister Bamulangaki Ssempijja Tours Food And Feeds Agricultural Projects Of The UPDF

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Nov102022
Uncategorized

UPDF Officers Urged To Defend Its Image

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Nov102022
Handover

Lt Gen Charles Lutaaya Ends Tour Of Duty At UPDF – Air Force

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Nov92022
Uncategorized

Uganda – Kenya Commit To End Gun Violence

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Nov32022
Diplomatic Partnership

European Union (EU) To Partner With East African Community Regional Forces To Promote Peace And Security In The DRC

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Nov32022
Press Statement

Promotion And Appointment In UPDF

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Nov22022
Sports

Second Edition of the Armed Forces Appreciation Motocross Challenge Launched

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Nov22022
Welfare

Minister Oleru Huda Donates To Lwengo Tweyambe Women’s And Orphans Veterans SACCO

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Nov12022
Workshop

New Defence Advisors Implored To Sustain Uganda’s Foreign Interests

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Oct312022
Welfare

UPDF Political Commissariat To Monitor The Impact Of Wazalendo Sacco Loans On Members’ Welfare

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Oct312022
Uncategorized

UPDF Warns Pastoralists In Karamoja Sub – Region Against Grass Burning

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Oct282022
Welfare

Wazalendo Sacco Launches 7th Cash Branch in Gulu City

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Oct272022
Bilateral Relations

Gen Mbadi Closes Two – Day Defence Committee Meeting Between Uganda And Kenya

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Oct272022
Uncategorized

UPDF Partners With Local Governments To Promote Orchard Farming And Environmental Conservation

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Oct262022
Handover

Wazalendo’s SUPCO Gets New Office Bearer

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Oct222022
Health

UPDF Participates In Activities Aimed At Supporting Treatment Of Children With Brain Disorders

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Oct192022
Uncategorized

Armed Forces Hold Breakfast Dialogue Meeting On Prevention Of Violence And Torture

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Oct152022
Welfare

Wazalendo SACCO Extends Cash Operations To Moroto Branch

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Oct152022
Handover

Maj Gen Dick Prit Olum Takes Over Mountain Division And Operation Shujaa Command

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Oct102022
Handover

Gen Muhoozi Hands Over To Lt Gen Kayanja Muhanga

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Oct72022
Bilateral Relations

 Uganda And Mali Execute Framework On Military Cooperation

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Oct62022
Diplomatic PartnershipTraining

Senior UPDF/ Defence Leaders Partner With British Defence Academy On Training Of Building Integrity

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Oct62022
Uncategorized

UPDF Participates In Makerere University Centennial Celebrations

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Oct42022
Press Statement

Promotions And Appointments In UPDF

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Sep302022
CIMICCSR

Kadaga Commissions East African Armed Forces CIMIC Activities In Jinja And Buikwe Districts

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Sep292022
Training

WSACCO Leaders And Managers Receive Risk Management And Communication Training

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Sep292022
Sports

Police Emerge Overall Winners Of The 16th Edition Of Interforce Games 2022 And Championships

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Sep262022
Sports

UPDF Outshines Sister Security Teams At Interforce Shooting Range Challenge 

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Sep252022
Sports

Day Two Of Interforce Games Excites Kasese Residents

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Sep242022
Sports

The 16th Edition Of Interforce Games And Champion Kicks Off

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Sep192022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Israel Sign Memorandum Of Understanding On Defence Cooperation

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Sep162022
Training

UPDF Passes Out Combat Engineers

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Sep162022
Welfare

Wazalendo Sacco Donates 12 Computers To 3 UPDF Units

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Sep152022
Operation Shujaa

Joint Forces Kill Three ADF Terrorists

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Sep142022
Welfare

TANESCO Boss Commends Wazalendo SACCO For Improving Members’ Welfare

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Sep122022
Press Statement

Promotions And Appointments In UPDF

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Sep82022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda’s Defence And Veteran Affairs Minister Holds Bilateral Talks With Egyptian Delegation

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Sep82022
Press Statement

Promotions And Confirmation Of Ranks In UPDF

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Sep72022
Sports

Security Forces Conduct Media Interface For The 16th Edition Of Interforce Games And Championships

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Sep72022
Uncategorized

UPDF Commissions Biometric System

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Sep72022
Handover

Col Samuel Mwesigwa Takes Office Of UPDF Director Anti-Aircraft At Land Forces

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Sep22022
Training

President Museveni Commissions 248 Officer Cadets; 48 Are Pioneer Graduates With Bachelors Degree

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Sep22022
CIMIC

4th EAC Armed Forces CIMIC Week Activities Close In Tanzania

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Aug312022
Retirement

“Go And Do Something In The Economy,” H.E Gen Museveni Tells Retiring Army Officers

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Aug312022
CIMICCSR

UPDF Donates To Assalam Orphanage Centre In Tanzania

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Aug312022
CIMICCSR

Zanzibar Residents Praise UPDF Medics As 4th EAC CIMIC Camp Closes In Tanzania

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Aug302022
Retirement

UPDF Retires 260 Senior Officers

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Aug302022
Bilateral RelationsCIMICCSR

UPDF Medics Urged To Serve Above Self

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Aug292022
Welfare

UPDF Deputy Commander Land Forces Inspects On-Going Construction Projects

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Aug292022
Operation Shujaa

Generals Commanding Operation Shujaa Inspect Forces In Sector Two

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Aug292022
Bilateral RelationsCIMIC

UPDF Partners With TPDF To Treat Hundreds In Zanzibar

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Aug282022
Bilateral RelationsTraining

Government Of The Republic Of Uganda Signs Memorandum Of Understanding With National Forensics Science University Of India

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Aug272022
ObituaryPress Statement

Programme For The Funeral Of Late General Elly Tumwiine

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Aug262022
Handover

Lt Col Betty Musuya Is The New UPDF Director Of Women Affairs

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Aug262022
CIMIC

UPDF Flags Off   Contingent For The EAC Armed Forces Day CIMIC Activities In Tanzania

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Aug252022
Handover

Deputy CDF Implores The Current Generation Of UPDF To Emulate Their Predecessors

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Aug252022
Handover

Brig Gen Simon Ocan Departs Hands Over NDC College As Secretary

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Aug252022
Training

UPDF Troops Acquire More Skills In Human Rights Protection

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Aug252022
Obituary

Press Statement

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Aug242022
Handover

Lt Gen Gutti Ends His Tour Of Duty At Kimaka

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Aug242022
Handover

Brig Gen Rebecca Mpagi Hands Over Office

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Aug232022
Diplomatic PartnershipHandover

Newly Appointed Defence Advisors Urged To Maintain Discipline

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Aug232022
Diplomatic PartnershipOperation Shujaa

Defence Minister And UN Special Envoy Discuss Regional Security

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Aug232022
Handover

Brig Kimbowa Takes Over As Adjutant UPDF General Headquarters

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Aug222022
Diplomatic PartnershipRegional Security

Great Lakes Intelligence Chiefs Contact And Coordination Group Meeting Opens In Kampala

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Aug182022
Press Statement

Appointments And Transfers In UPDF

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Aug152022
HealthOperation Shujaa

CMS To Launch Massive Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Vaccination Campaign To Operation Shujaa Troops

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Aug152022
Bilateral Relations

Chief Of Military Intelligence Meets Joint Intelligence Fusion Centre

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Aug102022
HandoverUsalama Kwa Wote

Brig Gen Busizoori Assumes Office As Deputy Commander of UPDF 3 Division

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Aug92022
Career Guidance

UPDF Officers Urge Buddo Students To Prioritise Their Education And Health

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Aug92022
Handover

Scale SFC To Higher Heights – CDF To New SFC Commander

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Aug92022
Bilateral Relations

President Of The Federal Republic Of Somalia Visits Luwero Industries Limited

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Aug82022
Handover

Maj Gen Kawagga Hands Over To Brig Gen Ssemwanga

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Aug62022
Workshop

“We Shall Control the spread of Ebola Viral Disease to UPDF troops in DRC” Says Lt Col Dr Francis Bakehena

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Aug52022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Somalia Adopt Memorandum Of Understanding On Defence Cooperation

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Aug52022
CSRWelfare

Wazalendo Sacco (WSACCO) Visits 305 Brigade At Sangobay Mutukula Border

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Aug42022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Somalia Discuss Memorandum Of Understanding On Defence Cooperation

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Aug42022
Press ReleasesPress Statement

PRESS STATEMENT

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Aug12022
Handover

Brig Gen Robert Freeman Mugabe Assumes Chairmanship Of General Court Martial

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Jul272022
Uncategorized

President Museveni Commissions Armoured Vehicle Plant In Nakasongola

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Jul262022
Training

Uganda Military Academy-Kabamba receives Vehicles.

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Jul232022
Welfare

President Museveni Commissions 102 Housing Units

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Jul222022
Uncategorized

Aging Force Not Good For National Defence, CDF Tells Officers And Militants

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Jul192022
Press Statement

Press Statement – A DESERTION HAS CONSEQUENCES

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Jul162022
Operation Shujaa

Mai Mai Dissidents Handed Over To Congo Authorities

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Jul142022
Training

President Museveni passes out Officers and Militants at Armored Warfare Training School- Kalama

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Jul132022
Uncategorized

UPDF Annual Stakeholders Ideological Re – Orientation Retreat Closes At Kaweweta

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Jul132022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda Continues To Maintain Bilateral Relationships With China

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Jul122022
Bilateral Relations

Defence Minister Meets Israel Ambassador To Uganda

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Jul122022
Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE – SALARY ENHANCEMENT FOR UPDF PERSONNEL

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Jul122022
Uncategorized

UPDF Annual Joint Key Stakeholders’ Retreat Officially Opens At Oliver Tambo Leadership School

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Jul92022
Uncategorized

Members Of High Command

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Jul62022
Diplomatic Partnership

UPDF Is A Pillar Of Stability, Says Brig Gen Rugumayo

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Jul62022
Press Statement

PRESS STATEMENT – CLARIFICATION OF FALSE NEWS REPORT

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Jul52022
Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE – OPERATION SHUJAA UPDATE

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Jul42022
Press

Full Radio Interview of Defence Spokesperson and BBC Africa

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Jul42022
Recruitment

EASF Civilian Recruitment And Roster Verification Exercise Starts

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Jul22022
Welfare

President Museveni Lauds Cooperative Work

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Jul22022
Missions

UPDF Peace Keepers In Somalia Acquire More Skills On Child Protection

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Jun302022
Training

44 Senior Officers Graduate At SCSC Kimaka

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Jun292022
Recruitment

Over 1000 LDP Recruited As UPDF Concludes The Exercise In Eastern Region

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Jun252022
Training

National Defence College -Uganda Course Participants Complete One Week Study Tour

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Jun242022
Training

NDC Course Participants Visit Kinyara Sugar Limited

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Jun242022
Bilateral Relations

South African High Commissioner To Uganda Meets Veterans Affairs Minister

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Jun232022
Training

UPDF Lauded For Stabilising Gulu District

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Jun222022
Uncategorized

Defence Ministry Commemorates Africa Public Service Day

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Jun222022
Training

Lira City Commends UPDF Engineers

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Jun222022
Training

National Defence College Course Participants Tour Oil City

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Jun212022
Training

NDC Students Complete Eastern Tour

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Jun202022
Recruitment

Big Turn Up For LDP Recruitment Exercise In Moroto

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Jun202022
Training

Team Two Of NDC Completes Day One Of Its Study Tours In Mbarara

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Jun202022
Training

National Defence College Students Visit Tororo Cement Factory

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Jun182022
Recruitment

Average Turn Up In Kaabong As UPDF Kicks Off Recruitment Exercise

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Jun182022
CIMIC

MoDVA/UPDF lauded for it’s exemplary performance

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Jun172022
Uncategorized

President Museveni Applauds UPDF for Operation Shujaa

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Jun172022
Press Statement

PRESS RELEASE

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Jun162022
Security

ADF Suspects Arrested In Luweero

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Jun132022
Usalama Kwa Wote

President Museveni Roots To End Gun Violence In Karamoja Sub-Region

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Jun132022
Sports

Wazalendo Sacco Welcomes UPDF Boxing Champion

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Jun132022
Press Statement

AMENDED PRESS STATEMENT

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Jun122022
Missions

Gen Mbadi Visits UPDF Troops In Somalia

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Jun102022
Ushirikiano Imara

EAC Armed Forces Urged To Promote Integration

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Jun92022
Bilateral Relations

President Museveni Reaffirms Continued Friendship And Sympathetic Interests With Somalia

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Jun92022
Heroes' Day

We Must End The Balkanization Of African People – President Museveni

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Jun72022
Regional SecurityUshirikiano Imara

Leaders Visit Contingent Camps

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Jun72022
CIMICCSRUshirikiano Imara

EAC Armed Forces FTX Giving Back To The Community

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Jun52022
Uncategorized

UPDF Takes Part in Jubilee Military Pageant in London

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Jun52022
Missions

Over 200 Trees Planted In ATMIS Sector One To Mark The World Environment Day

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Jun32022
Regional SecurityUshirikiano Imara

EAC Armed Forces Field Training Exercise Opens In Jinja

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Jun12022
Ushirikiano Imara

Maj Gen Don Nabasa Visits EAC Armed Forces Contingent

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Jun12022
Regional Security

Terrorism Making The World Less Safe – Brig Gen Rugumayo

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Jun12022
Workshop

FPU Urged To Embrace Fishing Licenses

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May312022
Training

Olilim Training School Passes Out 2593 Local Defence Personnel

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May312022
Bilateral Relations

National Defence College (NDC-U) Hosts   Indian Defence College Delegation

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May312022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Ethiopia Seek To Tighten Relations

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May302022
Bilateral Relations

UPDF Hosts Delegation Of Student Officers From The Indian National Defence College

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May302022
Bilateral Relations

South Sudan Delegation Visits UPDF General Military Hospital

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May302022
Regional SecurityUshirikiano Imara

EAC Armed Forces Joint Training Exercises Boost Readiness And Responses To Security Challenges

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May302022
Workshop

UPDF Fisheries Protection Unit To Be Guided By Licenses

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May302022
Obituary

UPDF Troops Urged To Prepare For Their Destiny As Maj Joseph Mukiraine Is Laid To Rest

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May282022
Missions

Somali Government Honours Uganda Contingent Commander

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May272022
Training

154 Joint Security Officers Acquire Ideological Skills From ORTSL – PACEX

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May262022
Usalama Kwa Wote

40 Guns Recovered As Joint Security Forces Continue To Pacify Karamoja Sub Region

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May242022
Operation Shujaa

Key Leader Engagements In Operation Shujaa Have Civil Military Cooperation

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May242022
Uncategorized

CLF Launches Operations Centre And Makes An Assessment Of Various Projects

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May202022
Training

128 Security Officers Complete Ideological Development Course

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May202022
Operation Shujaa

Joint Security Forces Scale Down ADF Atrocities In Eastern DRC

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May202022
Training

UPDF Troops In Karamoja Sub-Region Trained On Human Rights

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May172022
Diplomatic Partnership

Defence Minister Meets The UN Special Envoy

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May172022
Training

President Museveni Urges Military Officers To Embrace Science And Technology

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May162022
Regional Security

UPDF hosts Members of EJVM

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May132022
Training

NDC-Uganda Students Undertake Study Visit In Jinja

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May132022
Missions

Battle Group XXXII Completes Post Mission Ideological Training Course

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May122022
Training

National Defence College – Uganda Course Participants Continue Industrial Tour

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May122022
Retirement

Documentation Of UPDF Impending Retirees Concluded At Land Forces Headquarters

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May122022
Missions

Security Beefed As Somalia Prepares For Presidential Elections

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May112022
Press Statement

UPDF Is Still Treating PC Mukebezi Robert At Victoria Hospital

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May102022
Missions

ATMIS Commended For Maintaining Peace During Ramadhan In Somalia

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May102022
Retirement

UPDF Land Forces Headquarters To Retire 363 This Year

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May102022
Press Statement

Altercation Between A Military Police Soldier And Traffic Police Officer

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May92022
Retirement

Air Forces And SFC To Retire 61 This Year

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May92022
Bilateral Relations

UPDF and FARDC Intelligence Chiefs Meet

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May82022
Retirement

MODVA/UPDF Retirement Documentation And Sensitization Done At CMRC

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May72022
Retirement

UPDF Mountain Division To Retire 08 Personnel

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May62022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Tanzania Sign Memorandum Of Understanding On Cooperation In Defence And Security For The Oil Pipeline Project

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May62022
Retirement

MODVA/UPDF Retirement Documentation Exercise Captures 2 Division Personnel

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May62022
Training

111 UPDF Officers Complete The Junior Command And Staff Course

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May52022
Retirement

17 Set To Retire From UPDF Armoured Brigade Headquarters

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May52022
Training

National Defence College – Uganda Students Visit Luweero Industries Limited

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May42022
Training

President Museveni Passes Out Intake 6 Of Local Defence Personnel

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May42022
Sports

14th Edition UPDF CDF Cup Ends

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May42022
Retirement

MODVA/UPDF Documents Impending Retirees Of Nakasongola Cantonment

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May32022
Uncategorized

UPDF Trains 150 MODVA And UPDF Personnel On Ideology

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May22022
Retirement

MODVA/UPDF Retirement Documentation And Sensitization Exercise Reaches In 4 Division In Gulu

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May12022
Labour Day

Uganda Joins The Rest Of The World To Observe International Labour Day

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May12022
Missions

ATMIS Sector One Commander Donates Eid Presents To Somali Community

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Apr302022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Karimajongs Urged To Surrender Illegal Guns And Resort To Other Income Generating Activities

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Apr302022
Retirement

UPDF 5 Division Prepares Personnel For Retirement

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Apr302022
Missions

ATMIS Hands Over Captured Weapons To Somalia Government

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Apr292022
Welfare

WSACCO Donates To Participants At The CDF Cup

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Apr292022
Uncategorized

Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye Shares Experiences As A Public Relations Practitioner

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Apr292022
Training

National Defence College – Uganda Course Participants On Field Study Tour Around The Country

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Apr292022
Retirement

UPDF 3 Division Second In Command Counsels Impending Retirees

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Apr282022
Retirement

UPDF Retirement Documentation Team attends to 3 Personnel

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Apr272022
Bilateral RelationsMissions

Defence State Minister Meets UN Chief

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Apr272022
Retirement

MODVA/UPDF Retirement Documentation and Sensitization Exercise enters Day 3 in Jinja

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Apr252022
Retirement

UPDF Retirement Documentation And Sensitisation Exercise Commences

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Apr252022
Bilateral Relations

Ministry Of Defence Hosts Tanzania’s Defence Staff

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Apr242022
Sports

The 14th Edition CDF Soccer Cup Kicks Off In Fort Portal City

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Apr222022
Press Statement

STATEMENT ON THE ALLEGED TORTURE BY CMI OF ONE MARINOS ALEXANDRIA AKA ESTHER

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Apr212022
Handover

Brig Gen David Mugisha Takes Over As Second In Command Of 3 Infantry Division

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Apr212022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda and Tanzania Are Historically Bound – Gen Mbadi

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Apr202022
Bilateral Relations

State Defence Minister Meets Republic of Korea Defence Attaché to Uganda

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Apr162022
Operation Shujaa

UPDF CDF Meets His DRC Counterpart, About Operation Shujaa

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Apr152022
Training

Military Police Passes Out 255 Trainees

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Apr142022
Missions

AU ATMIS Force Commander Applauds UPDF In Somalia

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Apr132022
Welfare

Wazalendo Sacco Leaders Urged To Be Strategic, Plan Well And Make Sound Decisions

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Apr132022
Bilateral Relations

Minister Oboth Meets UN Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region

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Apr122022
Missions

Brace Yourself for The Task Ahead – D/CONTICO to UPDF Commanders

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Apr92022
Training

Local Defence Personnel (LDPs) To Be Absorbed In The Army – President Museveni

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Apr72022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda’s Minister Of Defence Hosts Japanese Ambassador To Uganda

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Apr72022
Welfare

UPDF Chiefs Tipped On The Benefits Of The Parish Development Model

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Apr62022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Kenya Sign Bilateral Agreement On Cooperation In Defence And Security

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Apr62022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Ugandan Joint Security Delegation Receives Seized Guns From Kenyan Authorities

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Apr52022
Obituary

MoDVA/UPDF mourns the Late Rt.Hon. Jacob Oulanyah

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Apr52022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Kenya Hold Meeting On Cooperation In Defence And Security

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Apr42022
Bilateral Relations

Uganda And Burundi Enjoy Strong Bilateral Relations For Peace And Trade

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Apr12022
Handover

Deputy Air Force Commander And Chief Of Staff Assume Offices

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Mar302022
Training

President Museveni Passes Out ESO Officers

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Mar302022
Uncategorized

Knowledge Sharing Session On Gender And Equity Responsiveness For Senior MODVA/UPDF Leadership

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Mar282022
Handover

UPDF Non Commissioned Officers Academy Changes Command

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Mar282022
Bilateral Relations

Integration At Its Best: MODVA/UPDF Hosts Officer Students From Tanzanian Command And Staff College

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Mar252022
Training

UPDF Passes Out More Marines

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Mar242022
Welfare

Wazalendo Sacco (WSACCO) Hits Highest Growth Amidst Covid -19 Constraints

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Mar232022
Operation Shujaa

Operation Shujaa Commanders Preside Over The Ground Breaking Ceremony For The Construction Of Kasindi-Beni-Butembo Road

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Mar232022
Uncategorized

The Directrice Afrique of Human Rights Watch pays a courtesy visit to the Defence Spokesperson

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Mar232022
Uncategorized

Access to Information Is A Right Of Every Person

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Mar222022
Handover

Col Abdul Rugumayo Assumes Office Of The Deputy Chief Of Military Intelligence

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Mar222022
Ushirikiano Imara

Final Planning Conference For EAC Armed Forces Exercise Ushirikiano Imara 2022 Opens In Kampala

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Mar212022
Workshop

UPDF Participates In The Uganda Water And Environment Week

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Mar182022
Missions

CDF Flags – Off Uganda Battle Group XXXV

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Mar162022
Usalama Kwa Wote

Joint Security Forces Continue To Pacify Karamoja

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Mar142022
Sports

UPDF’s Sgt Ssebutte To Defend boxing Title

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Mar132022
Operation Shujaa

Somali ADF Commander Put Out Of Action By Operation Shujaa Forces

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Mar112022
Tarehe Sita

We Saw God’s Hand Upon Us During The Liberation Struggle – President Museveni

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Mar22022
Bilateral Relations

Equatorial Guinea Vice President And Ugandan Defence Minister Visit Southern Range Nyanza LTD – Nytil

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Mar22022
Bilateral Relations

Equatorial Guinea Vice President Visits Ministry of Defence

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Mar12022
Welfare

Gen Sam Kavuma Appeals To Wazalendo Sacco Members To Utilize Sacco Funds

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Feb252022
MissionsTraining

CDF Flags Off Battle Group XXXV

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Feb242022
Ushirikiano Imara

Uganda Committed To The Success Of EAC Armed Forces Exercise Ushirikiano Imara 2022

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Feb192022
Missions

Change Of Command At United Nations Guard Unit In Somalia

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Feb182022
Operation Shujaa

‘Operation Shujaa’ Commander Inspects Joint Forces That Captured Boga Airfield, Tchabi And Kainama

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Feb172022
Handover

Brigadier General Felix Kulayigye Assumes Office Of Defence Spokesperson

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Feb102022
CSR

UPDF provides free medical services to Budadiri residents

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Jan242022
Tarehe Sita

UPDF Receives Masks From Southern Range Nyanza Limited (Nytil)

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Jan232022
Uncategorized

President Museveni Commissions First Helicopter Maintenance And Repair Facility In Sub Sahara Region

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Jan222022
Missions

UPDF Troops Under AMISOM Get COVID-19 Booster Dose

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Jan212022
Tarehe Sita

Dr.Agarwal’s Eye Hospital Partners with UPDF for Tarehe Sita

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Jan172022
Welfare

Wazalendo Sacco Visits Missionaries Of The Poor

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Jan152022
Operation Shujaa

Generals Commanding Operation Shujaa Meet

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Jan122022
Workshop

Defence Attachés And Advisors Advised To Protect Our Interests

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Jan112022
Handover

Brig Gen Byekwaso Hands Over Defence Spokesperson Office

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Nov292021
Training

Embrace Ideological Orientation To Revitalize Accountability To Ugandans – Says Maj Gen Joram Kakari

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Nov272021
Handover

UPDF Deputy Chief Of CIMIC Calls For Duty Guided By Ideological Clarity

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Nov222021
Bilateral Relations

CDF Meets Russian Delegation In Uganda On Military Cooperation

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Nov62021
Welfare

Wazalendo SACCO Gifts Member

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Nov62021
Welfare

WSACCO Recognizes Staff Performance

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Oct162021
Missions

Deputy CDF Meets Leaders Of Karamoja Sub-Region

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Oct162021
Missions

3 Division Court Martial Sentences 08 Criminals

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Oct132021
CIMIC

UPDF Concludes EAC Armed Forces Civil Military Cooperation Week In Kenya

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Oct132021
Security

3 Division Court Martial Sentences 08 Criminals

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Oct122021
Security

Cattle Raids And Insecurity Will End – Lt Gen Elwelu

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Oct92021
Security

Deputy CDF Meets Leaders Of Karamoja Sub-Region

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Oct62021
Uncategorized

Defence Minister Commends UPDF For Stabilising Karamoja Sub-Region

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Oct42021
CIMIC

EAC Forces Are Key Players In Integration Process – Maj Gen Kyanda

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Sep292021
Training

281 UPDF Soldiers Complete Training In Mountain Warfare

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Sep282021
Missions

UPDF Commander Land Force In Somalia To Assess Troop Welfare

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Sep272021
Uncategorized

The Key To Africa’s Security Is Integration- Lt Gen Elwelu

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Sep172021
Training

Our Contribution In Fighting Extremism Is For Peace And Stability In Africa

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Aug212021
Obituary

Maj Gen Paul Lokech Passes on

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Jul232021
Welfare

UPDF Wazalendo Sacco (Wsacco) Commissions A New Cash Branch At Mubende

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Jul232021
Training

President Museveni passes out UPDF Counter Terrorism Graduands

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Jul142021
Missions

Brig. Gen. Ogik honoured with AU medal

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Jul12021
Uncategorized

Change of Leadership at Land Force H/q

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Jun292021
Uncategorized

Gen Mbadi takes over Office as new CDF

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Jun282021
Uncategorized

Hon Ssempijja takes over as Defence Minister

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Jun202021
Welfare

General David Muhoozi Commissions Permanent Homes For 505 And 403 Updf Infantry Brigades

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May222021
CSR

UPDF donates food items to Muslim community

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May182021
Uncategorized

UPDF Starts COVID Vaccination for its AMISOM Soldiers

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May172021
Uncategorized

EASF Opens Mission Planning Course

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May172021
Uncategorized

CDF Launches 13th Edition of the CDF Cup

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May142021
Uncategorized

Uganda AMISOM contingent holds pipping ceremony

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Apr142021
Uncategorized

Museveni Passes out 1143 UPDF Cadet Officers, Air Force Pilots

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Feb62021
CSR

UPDF hands over refurbished classroom blocks, dental unit to Bukomansimbi locals

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Jan282018
CSR

UPDF clean Entebbe town, donate drugs

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Sep302016
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Sep202016
Travel

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