General Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Credit Photo Reuters
Uganda Defence Force Commander General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is the son of dictator President Museveni, has demanded $100 bn in compensation from the United States for the loss of Ugandan forces in Somalia.
Mohamed El-Amine Souef, the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission in Somalia, told VOA that the ATMIS operation has recorded around 4,000 deaths, mostly soldiers from Burundi and Uganda.
“The United States has at least 100 billion dollars in our work in Somalia,” said Muhoozi.
The United States, which withdrew its troops from Somalia after the Black Hawk Down Incident in 1993 in which 18 Americans were killed, said General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who relied on Ugandan soldiers to achieve Washington’s goals in Mogadishu.
Hundreds of Ugandan soldiers have been killed in bloody battles to oust Al-Shabab from the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu.
Muhoozi’s tweet comes at a time when relations between Uganda and the United States have deteriorated.
The United States has recently imposed sanctions on Ugandan officials, and the United States refused to invest in Uganda.
Washington also excluded Uganda from the African Growth Opportunities Agreement which gives sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to US markets.