The following is a list of wars involving Uganda.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | President | Ugandan losses |
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Rwenzururu Uprising (1962–1982) |
Uganda | Rwenzururu Movement | Victory
|
Mutesa II of Buganda | Unknown |
Simba Rebellion (1964–1965) |
Simba rebels Uganda Cuba |
Congo-Léopoldville Belgium |
Defeat
|
Unknown | |
First Sudanese Civil War (1965–1969) |
Uganda Sudan |
Anyanya | Victory (involvement only on Ugandan territory)
|
Unknown | |
Mengo Crisis (1966) |
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
|
Idi Amin | Unknown |
Arube uprising (1974) |
Uganda | Putchists | Government victory
|
100+ | |
Operation Entebbe (1976) |
Uganda PFLP-EO |
Israel | Defeat
|
45 | |
Uganda–Tanzania War (1978–1979) |
Uganda Libya PLO |
Tanzania UNLA Mozambique |
Defeat
|
~1,650 | |
Ugandan Bush War (1980–1986) |
UNLA Tanzania North Korea |
NRA | NRA victory
|
Milton Obote | ~100,000– 500,000 |
LRA Insurgency (1987–) |
Uganda South Sudan DR Congo Central African Republic |
LRA | Victory
|
Yoweri Museveni | 65,000+ |
Second Sudanese Civil War (1995–2005) |
SPLA SPDF SSLM Anyanya II Eastern Front Uganda Ethiopia Eritrea |
Sudan Janjaweed SSDF Nuer White Army SPLA-Nasir |
Stalemate | Unknown | |
ADF Insurgency (1996–) |
Uganda DR Congo South Africa Tanzania Malawi |
ADF | Ongoing
|
Unknown | |
First Congo War (1996–1997) |
AFDL Uganda Rwanda Burundi Angola Eritrea |
Zaire ALiR UNITA |
Victory
|
Unknown | |
Second Congo War (1998–2002) |
RCD RCD-Goma Banyamulenge MLC FFR UPC Uganda Rwanda Burundi UNITA |
DR Congo Angola Chad Namibia Zimbabwe FDLR LRA UNRF II ADF FNI FROLINA CNDD-FDD |
Stalemate
|
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 SSDM Nuer White Army |
Withdrawal
|
Unknown | |
Kasese clashes (2016) |
Uganda | Rwenzururu | Victory
|
16 |
References
- Prunier, 82. See Kirsten Alnaes, "Songs of the Rwenzururu Rebellion," in P. H. Gulliver, ed., Tradition and Transition in East Africa (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969), 243-272.
- Poggo, S. First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan 1955-1972, p. 151. S.l.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- "Military Support for Sudanese Opposition Forces." Sudan. Accessed January 6, 2016.
- Kadhim, Abbas K. Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: A Handbook. London: Routledge, 2013, p. 422
- "Sudan CPA Provisions". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
- The Second Congo War lasted until 18 July 2003, but Uganda withdrew in 2002 following the Luanda Agreement of 6 September.
- http://www.willum.com/dissertation/3rpa.PDF
- "Uganda Rwenzururu: King Charles Mumbere charged with murder". BBC News. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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