President Museveni has swapped Major-General Dick Olum with Major-General Richard Otto as Commander of the Mountain Division and in effect the Operation Shujaa in eastern DR Congo, with the former going to the South Sudan Stabilisation Mechanism.
Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has vowed to fight corruption and mismanagement of resources in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). Gen. Muhoozi took over as CDF from Gen Wilson Mbadi yesterday during a handover ceremony held at the Fourth Infantry Division Headquarters in Gulu City. The ceremony in which the media was locked […]
Mali’s army has seized Kidal, a key town in the country’s north that the ethnic Tuareg rebels have held for nearly a decade. Kidal has been a bastion for the Tuareg, one of the rebel groups at the centre of the country’s long-running political and security crises. The army, reportedly backed by Wagner group mercenaries, […]
