Sentence examples for * updf in from inspiring English sources

"Northern Ugandans have innumerable stories about the abuses committed by the UPDF in their communities," writes FPIF contributor Beth Tuckey in Denouncing Dictatorship in Uganda.

However, according to an opinion column in the Monitor, the announcement was immediately seized upon by "some chaps in government [who] saw this as a gold mine to deliver a political statement": that LRA rebels based in Sudan – and not the UPDF in the DRC – must therefore have brought the virus.

Their father, a soldier in the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), died in 2005 and the children had to swap the life of Kumi town with that of Amorikot village.

Following Kony 2012, the U.S sent troops to reinforce the UPDF's efforts in fighting the LRA.

During the outbreak itself, health workers and scouts travelling to affected villages were obliged to travel in Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) armoured personnel carriers in order to avoid the rebels.

"They are in survival mode," said UPDF spokesperson Captain Draga Lawrence.

The United States, which has around 150 special forces in Obo supporting the UPDF, has also announced plans to withdraw from military operations.

In Uganda's two-decade-long war with rebel forces, nearly two million persons were forced by the Ugandan army (UPDF) from their homes into what were in essence poorly defended concentration camps.

Families and community members are also trained on how to provide  care and support to these children as they deal with their very difficult experiences..  UNICEF also supports repatriation of children who are abducted from neighbouring countries in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC), UPDF, and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

Support for the UPDF — the force behind the brutal counterinsurgency campaign against ethnic Acholi in northern Uganda in the late 1980s that ultimately spawned the LRA — has proved particularly controversial over the years.

One works with the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), but hardly come to check on us," she adds.