Uganda Says its Troops Won’t Leave South Sudan

{{Uganda Says its troops (UPDF) will not leave south Sudan where they have been fighting alongside the South Sudan forces in defence against mutineering forces.}}

“We do not need to be stampeded out of South Sudan without a mechanism to maintain order,” said Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Uganda’s Land Forces.

Gen Muhoozi said , “You cannot talk in the middle of chaos.”

The US, Norway and Ethiopia are among the countries that have questioned Uganda’s continued presence in South Sudan and have called for them to leave, warning their partisan presence in the country risks spiraling the fighting into a regional conflict.

Ugandan troops deployed in South Sudan five months ago and helped stabilise President Salva Kiir’s government then shaken by an army mutiny that saw hundreds of SPLA soldiers breaking ranks to join a rebel group led by Dr Riek Machar, the country’s former vice president.

{Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Uganda’s Land Forces}