Tag Archives: Military

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | At least four soldiers were killed on Monday during clashes between Ugandan and South Sudanese troops at a disputed border area, a Ugandan military spokesperson said here Wednesday. Armies from Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) and South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) exchanged fire at …

    Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni last week interacted with senior military officers from different African countries at the Senior Command and Staff College, Kimaka, in Jinja. The 52 military officers are from Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, and Malawi. Museveni entertained 10 …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Museveni has attributed the growing wave of youth uprisings to the absence of a wealth creation strategy. Museveni made the remarks while delivering a Lecture to senior military officers from across the region at the senior command and staff college, Kimaka in Jinja …

JINJA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has expressed the country’s capacity to train Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF officers in all the internationally accredited military courses at the National Defense College-NDC, Njeru. Speaking during the graduation of senior military officers at the NDC, in Njeru municipality on Friday, …

BEIJING | Xinhua | Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, has signed an order to release the regulations on awarding military scientific research. The new document, which will take effect on July 1, aims to implement the strategy of strengthening the armed forces through science and technology and …

If Museveni went to the bush over rigged elections, then restoring a credible elections should have been his main goal COMMENT | MORRIS KOMAKECH |  The most deceptive narrative for justifying the 1980-85 Luwero bush war was that then-president Milton Obote’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party rigged 1980 general elections. …

COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama |  The signs are ominous – the growing militarism is steadily revealing itself as the masked bandit it always has been. In May 2024, the Human Rights and Peace Centre (HURIPEC) at Makerere University released a gem of a report, ‘GUNS, BREAD AND BUTTER: Militarization of Economic …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for reaching a successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for military development. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while attending a …

The government’s move to transfer many public construction projects to the military has worsened fears about President Museveni’s concentration of power Kampala, Uganda | Nakisanze Segawa Global Press Journal Uganda |   In 2021, the Ugandan government announced a policy that the military would take on all new government-funded construction projects in the …

BEIJING | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to build a strong, modernized information support force, and to realize the leapfrog development of the Chinese military’s network information system. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the …