Tag Archives: George Musinguzi

Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | A Uganda People’s Defense Forces- UPDF soldier shot himself dead in Bunyangabu district on Friday. Private Godfrey Nandasaba reportedly took his own life from inside his army tent at Kisogi-Rwimi army detach in Kabonero Sub County.   According to the UPDF Mountain Division Spokesperson,  Capt George …

Bunyangabu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda People’s Defense Forces – UPDF is investigating circumstance under which one of their soldiers shot dead a woman and her child in Bunyangabu district.    Paul Lotukei allegedly shot and killed Pamela Nayebare, 26, and her 9-month-old son Owen Kusemererwa on Friday at …

Mayuge, Uganda| AFP |  THE INDEPENDENT |  A positive case of COVID-19 has been recorded in Magamaga Military Barracks in Mayuge district. The victim is a wife to a Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldier, who travelled to the barracks to nurse her ailing husband on Tuesday. The soldier whose identities have …

Mayuge, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Two people have been arrested for killing Sergeant Samson Emoding, a soldier of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces-UPDF who was attached to the Engineering Brigade in Magamaga. Emoding was killed over the weekend and his body dumped on railway slippers in Magamaga trading centre, Mayuge …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Several divers from the Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF marine unit have been deployed to assess the extent of silting in Lake Victoria and River Nile; days after a floating island affected the operations of Nalubaale, Kiira and Bujjagali power dams.  The divers, who started their …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Retired Lt. Col. Francis Itabuka, the former Director State Research Bureau-SRB, says he opted not to claim his gratuity from the Defense Ministry due to negative media publicity. According to Itabuka, the media has labeled the Idi Amin government as a military regime and …