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East Africa:
Ugandan Troops to Quit Somalia
New Times, 2 November 2012
UGANDAN Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi, on Thursday, told the nation's parliament that a decision has been taken to pull out of all regional efforts, including peacekeeping missions… Read more »
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Uganda:
Al-Shabaab in Disarray
New Vision, 18 September 2012
The United States envoy to Somalia James Swan has said that Al Shabab militants fighting the Government of Somalia have been cornered by forces of the Africa Union Mission to… Read more »
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Uganda:
Museveni's Mission to Somalia
Independent (Kampala), 25 August 2012
My recent visit to Mogadishu and seeing what our troops have done there made me proud. Yet perhaps the greatest lesson from Somalia was not necessarily the good that our army is… Read more »
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Uganda:
Taking the War Beyond Mogadishu
Independent (Kampala), 11 August 2012
How the UPDF generals are tackling the new challenge Read more »
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Uganda:
U.S. Steps Up Training for African Force in Somalia
New Vision, 2 May 2012
At a training camp in Uganda, a dozen soldiers crouch, weapons raised as they make their way down a dirt road between shipping containers set up to look like buildings in the… Read more »
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East Africa:
Big Rush to Cash in On Somalia, Protect Uganda, Save Sudan
East African, 18 December 2011
World and regional powers are now in a big rush to simultaneously tackle three big and intractable East African problems -- the Somalia war, the crisis in eastern DR Congo, and the… Read more »
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Uganda:
Balkanising Somalia
Independent (Kampala), 26 October 2011
The debacle of the East Africa famine once again hit the international media in summer 2011. Television reports showed the emaciated faces of children, women, and the elderly who… Read more »
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Somalia:
The 'Transition' is Deferred
Garowe Online, 11 June 2011
By mid-May, all momentum to effect a "transition" of Somalia's internationally-recognized Transitional Federal Institutions (T.F.I.s) to a permanent constitutional order by August… Read more »
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Somalia:
Uganda's Threat to Pull Peacekeepers Out Sparks Debate
Shabelle, 3 June 2011
Some of Somali parliamentarians on Friday expressed their different point of views about the Ugandan president's statement of pulling out his troops from Somalia if Somalia's… Read more »