Kaabong, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A least 15 cattle rustlers of the Jie ethnicity in Kotido have been killed during a two-hour gun battle with the Uganda People’s Defense Forces in Kaabong district. The warriors were killed in Kaloto village, Lolelia sub-county, Kaabong district on Wednesday when they went to …
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Ntoroko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Bweramule sub county in Ntoroko district are living in fear since their area was attacked by Allied Democratic Forces-ADF rebels a week ago. On Tuesday last week, over 40 rebels crossed river Semliki into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo, attacked villages …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF and the police Anti-Stock Theft Unit-ASTU, have recaptured 41 of the inmates who had escaped from Moroto prison. At least 224 inmates escaped from Moroto government prison in September 2020, and went with 14 guns belonging to prison warders and …
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Koboko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF is set to redeploy its detachmentes along the Uganda-South Sudan border, following the recent invasion by armed assailants from South Sudan into Oraba town council, Koboko district. The bandits who are suspected to be members of the National Salvation Front-NAS, …
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Ntoroko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two Allied Democratic Forces-ADF rebels were gunned down Tuesday in a fire exchange with Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF in Ntoroko district. UPDF intercepted five rebels in Kayanja village, Bweramule sub-county, seven days after they raided the village. Rtd Maj Edward Jones Mugabirwe, the Ntoroko Resident …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) on Dec 13th sent a total of 1556 peacekeepers to Somalia to replace an equal number of fighters who have been recalled from the battlefield after serving for one year. The troops under UGABAG XXXVII were flagged off by …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has implored fighters belonging to the rebel Allied Democratic Forces-ADF to surrender or get killed. Speaking Tuesday evening at State House Nakasero, Museveni said the Uganda People’s Défense Forces-UPDF has now got capacity to look for ADF rebels wherever they …
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Uganda ATMIS troops in Somalia get new commander Mogadishu, Somalia | THE INDEPENDENT | The new contingent commander of Ugandan troops serving with the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Brig. Gen. Peter Gaetano Omola has officially assumed duty. The new commander replaces Brig. Gen. Keith Katungi, who has …
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Kumi, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces have blamed the Gombolola Intelligence Security Officers (GISOs) over the continued cattle rustling between Teso and Karamoja sub region. The security forces warned that GISOs could be partly collaborating with cattle raiders because they do not provide accurate and complete …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee are in Somalia for a five-day visit to Ugandan troops who have been fighting Al Shabaab insurgents since 2007. The legislators who are in the company of the state minister for Defence in charge of …
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