The deputy commander of the Land Forces, Maj Gen Sam Kavuma, has said the locust invasion has been contained. Over the last month, desert locusts have entered Uganda from Kenya, spreading across several districts in Teso, Karamoja, Lango, Acholi and West Nile sub-regions. However, Gen Kavuma, who is the UPDF focal person in the fight…
Uganda Police in Rukiga District is investigating circumstances where a police officer is allegedly accused of shooting a UPDF soldier. Sgt David Mperize who was shot in the leg, is attached to the 2nd Division in Mbarara District. According to sources, he is alleged to have been shot by Constable Alex Twongyeirwe attached to Kamwezi…
The army has killed at least 20 people suspected of attacking a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) detach in Zombo town council in northern Uganda today morning. The suspected attackers were killed today afternoon during fierce gunfire with UPDF soldiers who pursued them in Konga village, Patek parish in Jangukuru sub county about 40 kilometres away…
The President of the Republic of Uganda and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) H.E Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has officiated at the commissioning ceremony of Young Officer Cadets, at the Uganda Military Academy—Kabamba (UMAK) in Mubende District. The Young Officer Course Intake 04 2019/2020, had a total of 613 Young Officer Trainees…
Three Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) soldiers have been killed after unknown people attacked a UPDF detach in Zombo town council. According to sources, a group of over 100 civilians armed with machetes, hoes, bows and arrows on Thursday night stormed Oduk UPDF detach located one kilometre away from Zombo town council offices and set…
Police on Tuesday recovered a bomb that had been abandoned in Bugema ‘A’ village, Bukasakya Sub- County in Mbale district. Elgon region Police Spokesperson, Robert Tukei said the explosive device was discovered by the local community who alerted Police and bomb experts from Bugema army barracks. “It’s true the suspected bomb was recovered in Mbale…
Two chief body guards of Lt. Gen Peter Elwelu, the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) Commander Land Forces have been arrested after The Capital Times ran a story that 3-star general had run mad and was put on specialized medication under the watchful eye of UPDF Medical team. The UPDF spokesperson Brig. Richard Karemire on…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has refuted allegations of their top Officer being critically mentally ill and secretly bedridden. This followed yesterday’s story published by this very website after learning from a close relative that Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu had run mad and is being secretly held at his private residence in Bombo as…
Anxiety has engulfed the people of Rwenzururu kingdom after receiving scanty information that one of the deadly Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces ‘UPDF’ commander for Land Forces Lt. Gen Peter Elwelu has been attacked by a strange yet to be known disease. According to information that TheCapital Times has exclusively ascertained from UPDF’s land forces headquarters in…
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Francisco Madeira has handed over recovered weapons to the Somali National Security Adviser Abdisaid Muse Ali in a function at the sector one headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia. The weapons were recovered from Alshabab terrorists over time by the Ugandan troops…
