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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | General David Muhoozi, the Chief of Defence Forces, has asked soldiers heading to Somalia for the African Union Mission (AMISOM) duties to be alert and return alive. At least 1800 officers and troops will leave for Somalia this month where the Ugandan army forms …

Minister of State for Works, Gen Katumba Wamala, has dismissed efforts by some people who went to the Constitutional Court challenging his ministerial appointment while still a serving army officer. Wamala the immediate former Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) referred the petitioners to section 38 (2) of the UPDF Act …

On the greatest lesson in life His dream as a student at Old Kampala Senior Secondary School was to become a doctor but he ended up at Bukalasa Agricultural College. “I did sciences for prestige and ended up performing poorly, and not being admitted to Makerere University – the only …

  Understanding Museveni’s move on Muhoozi, Mbadi, Elwelu, Musanyufu Analysis on President Museveni’s recent UPDF reshuffle has focused on General Katumba Wamala and Maj.General Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s deployments but this might have easily been the biggest shake up of the in recent times, military analysts say. Insiders are calling it an …

In a Jan 9 reshuffle in the army, President Museveni replaced Gen. Katumba Wamala as the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) with Maj Gen David Muhoozi, previously Commander of Land Forces. Wamala is now the new Minister of State for Works filling a vacuum left after Parliament’s Appointments’ committee threw …

VIDEO: The Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs has summoned the IGP Kale Kaihura and the Army commander Gen. Katumba Wamala to answer queries regarding the Kasese attacks that led to the deaths of over 80 people. Parliament wants them to explain the deaths that followed the arrest of the Omusinga Charles …