UPDF Soldiers Return From Somalia, Equatorial Guinea

UPDF Soldiers Return From Somalia, Equatorial Guinea

By SpyUganda Report

KAMPALA, Uganda: A contingent of Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) that had been deployed in Somalia under AMISOM and Equatorial Guinea has since returned to Uganda after the completion of their respective missions.

Gen. David Muhoozi with the UPDF soldiers that returned from Somalia and Equatorial Guinea

Whereas those in Somalia were serving as peacekeepers under the African Mission for Somalia (AMISOM), the soldiers in Equatorial Guinea had been deployed to offer training and mentoring to  Guinean forces.  The  returnees who include 248  from Guinea and 2,400 troops of Uganda’s 23rd Battalion  Group to Somalia were received by the  Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) General David Muhoozi on Saturday.

Sources revealed that the returnees are to be deployed in Metropolitan Kampala such that they can beef up security in the capital city and its suburbs.

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