Uganda People's Defence Force
The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), previously known as the National Resistance Army, is the armed forces of Uganda. From 2007 to 2011, the International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated the UPDF had a total strength of 40,000–45,000, consisting of land forces and an air wing. Recruitment to the forces is done annually.
A Uganda Army OT-64 SKOT armoured personnel carrier during a military parade in Kampala in the late 1960s
Idi Amin (left), dressed in military fatigues, visits the Zairian dictator Mobutu in 1977.
Ugandan Chief of Defence Forces General Katumba Wamala with Ugandan soldiers as part of AMISOM in 2017
A Ugandan soldier in 2011
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally modified equatorial climate. As of 2023, it has a population of around 49.6 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city of Kampala.
A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the kingdom of Bunyoro (present-day Uganda) as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879.
Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja
The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda
Grey Crowned Crane – a symbol of Uganda