Major Christine Nyangoma, is a senior Ugandan military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).
She is the Commander of the UPDF Women’s Unit in Somalia, as part of the African Unions force, AMISOM.
While there, she was recruited in the National Resistance Army (NRA), joining the Ugandan Bush War, circa 1982.
[1] In June 2008, Nyangoma, at the rank of Captain, was appointed Staff Officer, in the Directorate of Women Services Personnel, in the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), by the then Chief of Defence Force (CDF), the late General Aronda Nyakairima (7 July 1959 to 12 September 2015).
She was deployed again on a second tour, on 31 October 2016, as the Officer-in-Charge of Women's Affairs, UPDF's entire contingent to AMISOM.