List of wars involving Uganda

The following is a list of wars involving Uganda.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results President Ugandan
losses
Rwenzururu Uprising
(19621982)
 Uganda Rwenzururu Movement Victory
  • Peace treaty signed in 1982[1]
Mutesa II of Buganda
Unknown
Simba Rebellion
(19641965)
Simba rebels
 Uganda
 Cuba
Congo-Léopoldville
 Belgium
Defeat
  • Simba rebels defeated
Unknown
First Sudanese Civil War
(19651969)[2]
 Uganda
 Sudan
Anyanya Victory (involvement only on Ugandan territory)
  • Anyanya presence cleared from Uganda
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
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
Idi Amin
Unknown
Arube uprising
(1974)
 Uganda Putchists Government victory
  • Uprising suppressed
100+
Operation Entebbe
(1976)
 Uganda
PFLP-EO
 Israel Defeat
  • 102 of 106 hostages rescued
45
Uganda–Tanzania War
(19781979)
 Uganda
 Libya
PLO
 Tanzania
UNLA
 Mozambique
Defeat
~1,650
Ugandan Bush War
(19801986)
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
  • LRA Removed From Uganda
Yoweri Museveni
65,000+
Second Sudanese Civil War
(19952005)[3]
SPLA
SPDF
SSLM
Anyanya II
Eastern Front
 Uganda
 Ethiopia
 Eritrea
 Sudan
Janjaweed
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
 Eritrea
 Zaire
ALiR
UNITA
Victory
Unknown
Second Congo War
(19982002)[6]
RCD
RCD-Goma
Banyamulenge
MLC
FFR
UPC
Uganda
 Rwanda
 Burundi
UNITA
DR Congo
 Angola
 Chad
 Namibia
 Zimbabwe

FDLR
RDR
ALiR
Interahamwe
Mai-Mai


LRA
UNRF II
ADF
FNI
FROLINA
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
(20132015)
 South Sudan
SSLM
 Uganda
SPLM-IO
SSDM
Nuer White Army
Withdrawal
  • IGAD-negotiated settlement fails
Unknown
Kasese clashes
(2016)
 Uganda  Rwenzururu Victory
16[8]

References

  1. 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.
  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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-02-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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
  8. "Uganda Rwenzururu: King Charles Mumbere charged with murder". BBC News. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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