| Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Results | President | Ugandan
losses |
|---|
Rwenzururu Uprising
(1962–1982) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}} | {{flagicon image|Rwenzururu flag (1962–82).png|size=22px}} Rwenzururu Movement | Victory- Peace treaty signed in 1982[1]
| Mutesa II of Buganda | Unknown |
Simba Rebellion
(1964) | {{flagicon image|Socialist red flag.svg|size=22px}} Simba Maoists
{{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|Cuba|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|COD|1963|size=22px}} Congo-Léopoldville
{{Country|Belgium|size=22px}} | Defeat | Unknown |
First Sudanese Civil War
(1965–1969)[2] | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|Sudan|1956|size=22px}} | {{flagicon image|Sn anyaanya1.PNG|size=22px}} Anyanya | Victory (involvement only on Ugandan territory)- Anyanya presence cleared from Uganda
| Unknown |
Battle of Mengo Hill
(1966) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}} (Obote loyalists) | {{Country|Buganda|size=22px}} (Mutesa II loyalists) | Regime change- Milton Obote becomes president
| 200+ |
1972 invasion of Uganda[3]
(1972) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} FRONASA | Government victory- Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled
| Idi Amin| Unknown | |
Operation Entebbe
(1976) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
PFLP-EO | {{Country|Israel|size=22px}} | Defeat- 102 of 106 hostages rescued
| 45 |
Uganda–Tanzania War
(1978–1979) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|Libyan Arab Jamahiriya|1977|name=Libya|size=22px}}
PLO | {{Country|Tanzania|size=22px}}
{{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} UNLA
{{Country|Mozambique|1975|size=22px}} | Defeat- Overthrow of Idi Amin by Tanzania
| ~1,650 |
Ugandan Bush War
(1981–1986) | {{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} UNLA | {{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} NRA | NRA victory- Overthrow of Milton Obote
| Milton Obote | ~100,000–
500,000 |
LRA Insurgency
(1987–) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|South Sudan|size=22px}}
{{Country|DR Congo|size=22px}}
{{Country|Central African Republic|size=22px}} | LRA | Ongoing | Yoweri Museveni | 65,000+ |
Second Sudanese Civil War
(1995–2005)[4] | {{Flagicon|South Sudan|size=22px}} SPLA
{{Flagicon|South Sudan|size=22px}} SPDF
SSLM
{{flagicon image|Sn anyaanya1.PNG|size=22px}} Anyanya II
Eastern Front
{{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|Ethiopia|size=22px}}
{{Flag|Eritrea|size=22px}} | {{Country|Sudan|size=22px}}
{{Flagicon|Sudan|size=22px}} Janjaweed
SSDF
Nuer White Army
SPLA-Nasir | Stalemate[5]- Comprehensive Peace Agreement[6]
- Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement
| Unknown |
ADF Insurgency
(1996–) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|DR Congo|size=22px}}
{{Country|South Africa|size=22px}}
{{Country|Tanzania|size=22px}}
{{Country|Malawi|size=22px}} | ADF | Ongoing- Low-level insurgency ongoing
| Unknown |
First Congo War
(1996–1997) | {{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} AFDL
{{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|Rwanda|1962|size=22px}}
{{Country|Burundi|size=22px}}
{{flagicon|Angola|size=22px}} Angola
{{Country|Eritrea|size=22px}} | {{Country|Zaire|size=22px}}
{{flagicon|Rwanda|1962|size=22px}} ALiR
{{flagicon image|Flag of UNITA.svg|size=22px}} UNITA | Victory- Overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko
- Zaire reorganized into the DR Congo
| Unknown |
Second Congo War
(1998–2002)[7] | {{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} RCD
{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} RCD-Goma
{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} Banyamulenge
{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} MLC
{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} FFR
{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} UPC
{{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} Uganda
{{Country|Rwanda|1962|size=22px}}
{{Country|Burundi|size=22px}}
UNITA | {{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} DR Congo
{{Country|Angola|size=22px}}
{{Country|Chad|size=22px}}
{{Country|Namibia|size=22px}}
{{Country|Zimbabwe|size=22px}}
FDLR
{{flagicon|Rwanda|1962|size=22px}} RDR
{{flagicon|Rwanda|1962|size=22px}} ALiR
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Rwandan Democratic Movement.svg|size=22px}} Interahamwe
{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997|size=22px}} Mai-Mai
{{flagicon image|Flag of Lord's Resistance Army.svg|size=22px}} LRA
{{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} UNRF II
{{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} ADF
{{flagicon|Uganda|size=22px}} FNI
{{flagicon|Burundi|size=22px}} FROLINA
{{flagicon|Burundi|size=22px}} 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) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}} | {{Country|Rwanda|1962|size=22px}} | Defeat- Rwanda seized control of Kisangani[8]
| ~2,000 |
Somali Civil War
(2007–) | {{flag|Somalia|size=22px}}
{{Country|Uganda|size=22px}}
{{Country|Burundi|size=22px}}
{{Country|Ethiopia|size=22px}}
{{Country|Kenya|size=22px}}
{{Country|Djibouti|size=22px}}
{{Country|Sierra Leone|size=22px}} | {{flagicon image|ShababFlag.svg|size=22px}} al-Shabaab
{{flagicon image|Flag of the Islamic Courts Union.svg|size=22px}} Hizbul Islam | Ongoing- Advance of the TFG from 2009
- Federal Government formed in August 2012
| 110–
2,700+ |
South Sudanese Civil War
(2013–2015) | {{Country|South Sudan|size=22px}}
SSLM
{{Country|Uganda|size=22px}} | {{flagicon|South Sudan|size=22px}} SPLM-IO
{{flagicon|South Sudan|size=22px}} SSDM
Nuer White Army | Withdrawal- IGAD-negotiated settlement fails
| Unknown |
Kasese clashes
(2016) | {{Country|Uganda|size=22px}} | {{Country|Rwenzururu|size=22px}} | Victory | 16[9] |
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. ^Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
4. ^[https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/sudan/Sudarm988-07.htm "Military Support for Sudanese Opposition Forces."] Sudan. Accessed January 6, 2016.
5. ^Kadhim, Abbas K. Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: A Handbook. London: Routledge, 2013, p. 422
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.iss.co.za/af/profiles/Sudan/darfur/cpaprov.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-02-07 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609170106/http://www.iss.co.za/af/profiles/Sudan/darfur/cpaprov.htm |archivedate=2011-06-09 |df= }}
7. ^The Second Congo War lasted until 18 July 2003, but Uganda withdrew in 2002 following the Luanda Agreement of 6 September.
8. ^http://www.willum.com/dissertation/3rpa.PDF
9. ^{{cite news|title=Uganda Rwenzururu: King Charles Mumbere charged with murder|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38146226|accessdate=28 December 2016|work=BBC News|date=29 November 2016}}
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