Growing Unrest In Uganda, A Key U.S. Ally For African Security

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Ian Platz, Real Clear Defense: Uganda on the Brink: Key U.S. Ally for African Security

Over the past decade, the United States government has viewed Uganda as one of the best guarantors of stability and thus American interests in East and Central Africa. In its most basic form, the U.S. government has been able to count on the Ugandan military as a proxy for missions and operations that are important to U.S. interests and provide access to volatile areas in times of crisis. In exchange Uganda has quickly become the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. security assistance funding in Sub-Saharan Africa. With US support, Uganda has been more than willing to export its capable military into complex stability operations, with just over six thousand military personnel deployed to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and provides the majority of forces in the Counter-Lord’s Resistance Army (C-LRA) mission. It has also provided the U.S. with tremendous depth into the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa regions through a Cooperative Security Location (CSL) in Entebbe, just outside of the capital city of Kampala.

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WNU Editor: When I think of Africa and its history of tribalism, corruption, dictatorship, and bad governance .... Uganda always come to my mind. Idi Amin may be gone, but his legacy lives on.