{"id":13812,"date":"2014-04-11T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-says-its-troops-won-t-leave-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T06:11:53","slug":"uganda-says-its-troops-won-t-leave-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-says-its-troops-won-t-leave-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Says its Troops Won&#8217;t Leave South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{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.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not need to be stampeded out of South Sudan without a mechanism to maintain order,\u201d said Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Uganda&#8217;s Land Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Muhoozi said , \u201cYou cannot talk in the middle of chaos.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The US, Norway and Ethiopia are among the countries that have questioned Uganda\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan troops deployed in South Sudan five months ago and helped stabilise President Salva Kiir\u2019s 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\u2019s former vice president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5247 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/io-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Uganda&#8217;s Land Forces}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{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.}} \u201cWe do not need to be stampeded out of South Sudan without a mechanism to maintain order,\u201d said Maj Gen David Muhoozi, the commander of Uganda&#8217;s Land Forces. 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