{"id":66084,"date":"2024-02-01T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=66084"},"modified":"2024-02-01T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:13:43","slug":"list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers","title":{"rendered":"LIST: Museveni promotes 395 UPDF soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>President Museveni has promoted 382 and confirmed 13 senior and junior officer ranks of Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Defence spokesperson, Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye said on Wednesday that Mr Museveni who is the commander in chief of the UPDF had promoted 210 soldiers from the rank of Lieutenant to Captain, 92 soldiers from Captain to Major, 61 from Major to Lieutenant Colonel, 18 from Lieutenant colonel to Colonel, five soldiers from Acting lieutenant colonel to Colonel, two officers from Acting Captain to Captain, two from Acting Major to Major, four from acting colonel to Colonel and one officer from Colonel to Brigade General.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry of Defence and veteran affairs and UPDF fraternity congratulates the senior and junior officers upon their well-deserved promotions,\u201d Brig Gen Kuluayigye said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. President Museveni has promoted 382 and confirmed 13 senior and junior officer ranks of Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF). Defence spokesperson, Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye said on Wednesday that Mr Museveni who is the commander in chief of the UPDF had promoted 210 soldiers from the rank of Lieutenant to Captain, 92 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":66082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,258],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-66084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LIST: Museveni promotes 395 UPDF soldiers - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Museveni has promoted 382 and confirmed 13 senior and junior officer ranks of Uganda People\u2019s Defence Force ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LIST: Museveni promotes 395 UPDF soldiers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Museveni has promoted 382 and confirmed 13 senior and junior officer ranks of Uganda People\u2019s Defence Force ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-01T19:15:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/02\/sm_1706791018.500167.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"LIST: Museveni promotes 395 UPDF soldiers\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-01T19:15:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2024\/02\/sm_1706791018.500167.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/list-museveni-promotes-395-updf-soldiers\",\"name\":\"LIST: Museveni promotes 395 UPDF soldiers - 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