{{The United States deputy defence secretary, Ashton B. Carter, has hailed Uganda, describing the East African country as a key security partner.}}<\/p>\n
\u201cUganda is an important partner for the United States and has emerged as a regional leader in addressing conflicts across Africa\u201d, said a press statement from the US embassy in Kampala on Carter\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n
Carter met with Ugandan government officials in Kampala on Tuesday during a visit to the country that also took him to Ethiopia and Israel.<\/p>\n
The US deputy defence secretary said the United States is offering continued support to Uganda in the fight against the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group that has increasingly become a source of security problem in the Great Lakes region.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of a comprehensive approach to countering the LRA, the US military is advising and assisting the UPDF (Uganda Peoples Defence Force) and other regional partner forces in an effort to bring [LRA leader] Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants to justice\u201d, the US embassy statement said.<\/p>\n
The US official also thanked the Ugandan government for its contributions towards improving security in the Great Lakes region, particularly threats posed by the LRA and terrorism.<\/p>\n
During his visit to Uganda, Carter also met American personnel deployed by his government to help regional forces in the fight against LRA rebels.<\/p>\n
In October 2011, US president Barrack Obama sent 100 special forces to Uganda to provide support to regional forces in the hunt for the elusive LRA leader.<\/p>\n
According to its mandate, US special forces are tasked with offering advice to local forces and are not permitted to engage in fighting unless in self-defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{{The United States deputy defence secretary, Ashton B. Carter, has hailed Uganda, describing the East African country as a key security partner.}} \u201cUganda is an important partner for the United States and has emerged as a regional leader in addressing conflicts across Africa\u201d, said a press statement from the US embassy in Kampala on Carter\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}