List of wars involving Uganda

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The following is a list of wars involving Uganda.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results President Ugandan
losses
Rwenzururu Uprising
(1962–1982) 		 Uganda Rwenzururu Movement Victory
  • Peace treaty signed in 1982[1]
Mutesa II of Buganda
Unknown
Simba Rebellion
(1964–1965) 		Simba rebels
 Uganda
 Cuba 		Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Léopoldville
 Belgium 		Defeat
  • Simba rebels defeated
Unknown
First Sudanese Civil War
(1965–1969)[2] 		 Uganda
 Sudan 		Anyanya Victory (involvement only on Ugandan territory)
  • Anyanya presence cleared from Uganda
Unknown
Mengo Crisis
(1966)[citation needed] 		 Uganda (Obote loyalists)  Buganda (Mutesa II loyalists) Regime change
200+
1972 invasion of Uganda
(1972) 		 Uganda
 Libya
PLO 		People's Army
UPC
 Tanzania 		Government victory
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Idi Amin
Unknown
Arube uprising
(1974)[citation needed] 		 Uganda Uganda Putchists Government victory
  • Uprising suppressed
100+
Operation Entebbe
(1976)[citation needed
] 		 Uganda
PFLP-EO

Revolutionary Cells

 Israel Defeat
  • 102 of 106 hostages rescued
45
Uganda–Tanzania War
(1978–1979) 		 
Libya
PLO
  
UNLA
 Mozambique
 Defeat
~1,650
Ugandan Bush War
(1980–1986)
UNLA
 Tanzania
 North Korea
 Uganda NRA NRA victory
Milton Obote
~100,000–
500,000
LRA Insurgency
(1987–) 		 Uganda
 South Sudan
 DR Congo
 Central African Republic 		LRA Victory
  • LRA Removed From Uganda
Yoweri Museveni
65,000+
Second Sudanese Civil War
(1995–2005)[3]
SPLA
South Sudan SPDF
SSLM
Anyanya II
Eastern Front
 Uganda
 Ethiopia
 Eritrea
  
SSDF
Nuer White Army
SPLA-Nasir
 Stalemate[4]
Unknown
ADF Insurgency

(1996–) 		 Uganda
 DR Congo
 South Africa
 Tanzania
 Malawi 		ADF Ongoing
  • Low-level insurgency ongoing
Unknown
First Congo War
(1996–1997)
AFDL
 Uganda
 Rwanda
 Burundi
Angola Angola
 Eritrea
  Zaire
Rwanda ALiR
UNITA 		Victory
Unknown
Second Congo War
(1998–2002)[6]
MLC
Democratic Republic of the Congo FFR
Democratic Republic of the Congo UPC
Uganda Uganda
 Rwanda
 Burundi
UNITA
 Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo
 Angola
 Chad
 Namibia
 Zimbabwe

FDLR
Rwanda RDR
Rwanda ALiR
Interahamwe
Democratic Republic of the Congo Mai-Mai

CNDD-FDD
 Stalemate
  • Creation of a unified, multi-party government
  • Pretoria Accord; Rwandan withdrawal from Congo in exchange for commitment towards the disarmament of Hutu militias
  • Start of the Kivu conflict
Unknown
Six-Day War
(2000) 		 Uganda  Rwanda Defeat
~2,000
Somali Civil War
(2007–) 		 Somalia
 Uganda
 Burundi
 Ethiopia
 Kenya
 Djibouti
 Sierra Leone
al-Shabaab
Hizbul Islam
 Ongoing
110–
2,700+
South Sudanese Civil War
(2013–2015) 		 South Sudan
SSLM
 Uganda
SPLM-IO
South Sudan SSDM
Nuer White Army
 Withdrawal
  • IGAD-negotiated settlement fails
Unknown
Kasese clashes
(2016)[citation needed] 		 Uganda  
Rwenzururu
 Victory
16[8]

References

  1. P. H. Gulliver
    , ed., Tradition and Transition in East Africa (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), 243-272.
  2. ^ Poggo, S. First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan 1955-1972, p. 151. S.l.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  3. ^ "Military Support for Sudanese Opposition Forces." Sudan. Accessed January 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Kadhim, Abbas K. Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: A Handbook. London: Routledge, 2013, p. 422
  5. ^ "Sudan CPA Provisions". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
  6. ^ The Second Congo War lasted until 18 July 2003, but Uganda withdrew in 2002 following the Luanda Agreement of 6 September.
  7. ^ http://www.willum.com/dissertation/3rpa.PDF [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ "Uganda Rwenzururu: King Charles Mumbere charged with murder". BBC News. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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