Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Okello Oryem has said his country feels “gutted” and “betrayed” by a UN panel of experts’ leaked report that claims Uganda was arming M23 rebels based in DRC.
“If the UN upholds the report and condemns Uganda, we shall withdraw troops from Somalia. If they don’t adopt the report and exonerate Uganda, we shall stay,” Oryem said on Sunday.
“On one hand they say we are thugs and on the other they say we are doing a good job. They cannot claim that the UPDF is a professional army, doing a fantastic job in Somalia and in the same breath say they are thugs promoting war in Congo by supporting M23 rebels.
You choose either of that because the UPDF in Somalia is the same UPDF in Uganda,” Oryem said.
The UPDF soldiers account for more than a third of the 17,600 UN-mandated African Union peacekeeping Mission (AMISOM) battling al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants in Somalia.
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