The UPDF Chieftaincy of Medical Services is offering free medical services to residents of Budadiri at Budadiri Health Centre IV and Buwasa Health Centre IV in Sironko district. The medical outreach camps are organized by the UPDF as part of its activities to mark the 41st Tarehe Sita and Defence Forces Week. The UPDF physician…
Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has today received a donation of about twenty thousand (20,000) disposable masks from Southern Range Nyanza Textiles as a contribution towards the completion of the 41st Tarehe Sita Anniversary celebrations. The donation was received by the UPDF Deputy Chief of Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) Col Samuel Ntambirwe on behalf of…
The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today commissioned the Pro Heli International Services Helicopter Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Plant in Nakasongola Military Cantonment. The plant is the only facility in the South of the Sahara and will do the maintenance, repair and overhaul of…
Ugandan troops serving under AMISOM in Somalia received their COVID 19 booster dose in Mogadishu on Saturday, 22nd Jan 2022. https://youtu.be/bybXFaafHvI The exercise that saw 512 troops receive their booster doses was carried out by a UPDF medical team led by Capt. Dr. Thomas Ongom, the medical officer of Level II hospital under sector 1.…
Today, UPDF has received health supplies and eye Medicines worth 3.2 million UGX from Dr.Agarwal’s Eye Hospital located in Naguru, Kampala, Uganda. This function took place at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs headquarters in Mbuya, Kampala. Col. Sam Ntambirwe, the Deputy Chief of Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) received the donation on behalf…
WSACCO has today 17th Jan 2022 visited the home of Missionaries of the poor (Our lady of Good Counsel Monastery) in Mengo – Kisenyi a Kampala Suburb. The Missionaries of the Poor is a home that takes care of the homeless, elderly, and children with special needs who have no proper home and care.…
Lubiriya-Kasindi DRC: Maj Gen Bombelle Comille Ehola, and Maj Gen Kayanja Muhanga the overall FARDC and UPDF Operation Shujaa Commanders have held a meeting at Hotel Kasindi in DRC, aimed at designing mechanisms of securing the road construction projects and opening up a second axis against ADF terrorists. Gen Bombelle informed the meeting that the…
Ugandan Defence Attachés (DA) and Advisors have been cautioned to safeguard the country’s interests in their respective areas of responsibility. This was revealed today by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hon Vincent Waiswa Bagiire at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs (MoDVA) headquarters in Mbuya, Kampala. He implored participants…
Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso today has handed over the Office of the Defence Spokesperson to Lt Col Ronald Kakurungu as the Acting Defence Spokesperson. Lt Col Kakurungu has been the Deputy Defence Spokesperson since July 2021. Brig Gen Byekwaso assumed the office in August 2020, as the first female Defence/UPDF Spokesperson in the history of…
Bombo Land Forces Headquarter: The UPDF Land Forces Camp Commandant of the Headquarter based in Bombo, Maj Gen Joram Tumwine Kakari has called upon troops to embrace ideological campaign since it visibly defines UPDF as a disciplined force, non-partisan, national in character, patriotic, professional, productive and subordinate to civilian authority. The orientation will rejuvenate the…