List of wars involving Uganda

The following is a list of wars involving Uganda.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results President Ugandan
losses
Battle of Mengo Hill
(1966)
 Uganda Buganda Victory
Milton Obote
Unknown
FRONASA Invasion[1]
(1972)
 Uganda Uganda FRONASA Government victory
  • Invasion by Obote loyalists repelled.
Idi Amin
Unknown
Operation Entebbe
(1976)
PFLP-EO
 Uganda
 Israel Defeat
  • 102 of 106 hostages rescued.
45
Uganda–Tanzania War
(19781979)
Uganda Uganda
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya
PLO
 Tanzania
Uganda UNLA
Mozambique Mozambique
Defeat
~1,650
Ugandan Bush War
(19811986)
Uganda UNLA Uganda NRA NRA victory
Milton Obote
~100,000
500,000
LRA Insurgency
(1987)
 Uganda
 South Sudan
 DR Congo
 Central African Republic
LRA Ongoing
Yoweri Museveni
65,000+
Second Sudanese Civil War
(19952005)[2]
South Sudan SPLA
South Sudan SPDF
SSLM
Anyanya II
Eastern Front
 Uganda
 Ethiopia
 Eritrea
 Sudan
Sudan Janjaweed
SSDF
Nuer White Army
SPLA-Nasir
LRA
Victory (limited involvement)
Unknown
First Congo War
(1996–1997)
Democratic Republic of the Congo AFDL
Uganda Uganda
Rwanda Rwanda
Burundi Burundi
Angola Angola
 Zaire
Rwanda ALiR
UNITA
Victory
Unknown
Second Congo War
(19982002)[4]
Democratic Republic of the Congo RCD
Democratic Republic of the Congo Banyamulenge
Democratic Republic of the Congo MLC
Uganda Uganda
Rwanda Rwanda
Burundi Burundi
UNITA
Democratic Republic of the Congo DR Congo
Angola Angola
Chad Chad
Namibia Namibia
 Zimbabwe
Rwanda FDLR
Interahamwe
Democratic Republic of the Congo Mai-Mai
Uganda UNRF II
Burundi FROLINA
No clear victor
Unknown
Six-Day War in Kisangani
(2000)
 Uganda  Rwanda Defeat
~2,000
Somali Civil War
(2007)
Somalia TFG
United Nations AMISOM
al-Shabaab
Hizbul Islam
Ongoing
83
2,700+
ADF Insurgency
(2007)
 Uganda
 DR Congo
ADF Ongoing
  • Low-level insurgency ongoing.
Unknown
South Sudanese Civil War
(20132015)
 South Sudan
 Uganda
South Sudan SPLM-IO
SSLM
Nuer White Army
Continues
  • Ugandan withdrawal in 2015.
Unknown

Notes

  1. Ruzindana, Augustine. "Remembering the Aborted 1972 Invasion by Ugandan Exiles." Daily Monitor. September 14, 2014. Accessed December 31, 2015.
  2. "Military Support for Sudanese Opposition Forces." Sudan. Accessed January 6, 2016.
  3. http://www.iss.co.za/af/profiles/Sudan/darfur/cpaprov.htm
  4. The Second Congo War lasted until 18 July 2003, but Uganda withdrew in 2002 following the Luanda Agreement of 6 September.
  5. http://www.willum.com/dissertation/3rpa.PDF
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