President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is also the Commander in Chief of the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) has commended Kaweweta Military Training School for training South Africans during their liberation struggle. Gen Museveni says it’s because of this that he was awarded with the prestigious ‘Order of South Africa’ medal in recognition […]
National Unity Platform (NUP) activist who was of recent ‘tortured and burnt’ with a flat iron on the chest has trashed the allegations of abduction and torture by Ugandan security agencies. He has revealed that he was used by NUP and promised Shs50 million and treatment which they refused to fulfill. Eric Mwesigwa revealed this while
INVESTIGATIONS have kicked off into circumstances under which a UPDF soldier under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) shot three of his colleagues dead in Mogadishu yesterday Monday morning. According to sources, the incident happened when the soldier attached to the 23rd battalion and was deployed to guard at Aden Adde International Airport
By Derrick Kiyonga. Compilation of Monitor.President Museveni talks to Gen Elly Tumwine during the latter’s swearing-in ceremony as Security minister at State House in Entebbe on March 12, 2018. PHOTO/FILE. In November 2020 shock engulfed Uganda when security personnel—some sporting plain clothes whilst armed with Kalashnikovs—opened fire and killed more than 50 civilians. Protests had erupted
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By Andrew Bagala The spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs, and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), has said tweets by the Commander of Land Forces about the Ethiopian Tigray rebels are his personal opinion, but not of the army.
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By Julius Mugaga Tukacungurwa/ KMA Updates. Kampala, Uganda: The commission tasks government to expedite tangible and sustainable solutions to avert gaps in the human rights and freedoms as depicted in the report. Members of Uganda Human Rights Commission spearheaded by Ms. Mariam Wangadya (2ndR), the Chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission pose for a group
