The Ugandan military on Tuesday said it will starting October this year withdraw its troops hunting down the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR). Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, the military spokesperson, told Xinhua by telephone that the decision has been taken to start the phased …

Uganda, the largest contributor to an African Union mission fighting jihadists in Somalia, will pull out its troops from next year, the head of the military said on Thursday. Uganda was the first country to send soldiers to Somalia, spearheading the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007 …

After devastating back-to-back civil wars in Liberia, the UN launched a peacekeeping mission in September 2003 to ensure security, rebuild police and military forces from scratch, and disarm rebels. On June 30, the mission known as Unmil finally hands back security to Liberia’s military and police. In August 2003 a …