Bombo, Uganda - Overview

Overview

Bombo is one of three town councils in Luweero District, the other two being Luweero and Wobulenzi. All three municipalities are located on the Kampala - Masindi highway, that continues to Gulu and Arua in Northern Uganda.

The town has a large Nubian minority, the Nubians having settled there when they came from Sudan to serve in the British Colonial army. Bombo remains the location of an army barracks, and was the headquarters of the Ugandan Ministry of Defense until December 2007, when they were moved to Mbuya, in Nakawa Division in southeastern Kampala. Bombo, however, remains the headquarters of the Uganda Land Forces

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