The awaited day. After nearly two years in the battle field, the UPDF soldiers are more than relieved as they board army trucks for that last trip from South Sudan back home. Risdel Kasasira travels ...

From the military warplanes looking down from a small belt of River Semliki snakes through a dence forest making its way from the Lake Edward in Beni and pouring into Lake Albert on the Ugandan side.

December 15, 2013 will forever be remembered by the people of South Sudan as a dark day in their history. On that fateful day, elements within the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) attempted to ...

A potholed runway ushers you into Juba International Airport--the most critical South Sudan government installation. A small old stuffy building with dusty window panes and a dusty cracked cement ...

Kampala — The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) are one of the most battle-hardened armies in Africa. But the ball game in Somalia is different, as Joshua Kato who just returned from Mogadishu ...

April 9, 2015 (KAMPALA) – An opposition leading member of national legislature on Thursday said the mission of Ugandan troops, involved in the inter South Sudanese conflict, was risky and illegal and ...

ON May 16, a roadside bomb in Hamr-Weyn, near the old sea port in the suburbs of Mogadishu, exploded killing four Ugandan peace-keepers on patrol and injured six others. ON May 16, a roadside bomb in ...

The Peace Operations Training Centre in Singo already has a MOUT training site made of largely shipping containers, seen here in October 2017, when US marines trained the UPDF's Battle Group 24 before ...

About 33 years ago, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni captured power after a five-year endeavour, mainly in the central parts of the east African country. His ragtag fighters, some barefooted, marched ...

SOROTI, Uganda - Exercise Atlas Drop 11 came to a close with a ceremony at Drop Zone Blue near Olilim April 20 following three days of aerial-delivery resupply practice missions. Distinguished ...