The Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF)--previously the National Resistance Army--constitutes the armed forces of Uganda. Prior to 2000, U.S. military forces participated with the UPDF in training activities under the African Crisis Response Initiative. U.S. military assistance was terminated in 2000 as a result of the Ugandan incursion into the DRC. Following the June 2003 UPDF withdrawal of troops from the DRC, the U.S. has restarted limited nonlethal military assistance.
Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Wing
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 4,952,945 (2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,687,924 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $95 million (FY98/99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.9% (FY98/99)
Uganda, a small landlocked state located on the equator in East Africa, is bordered by Sudan to the north, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) to the west, Rwanda and Tanzania to the south, and Kenya to the east.
Uganda's borders and the basis of its economic system were created (1893-1926) as British rule supplanted older and much smaller political units, which remained a focus for cultural, economic, and political competition.
Uganda occupies part of a high plateau that averages 915 m (3,000 ft) in the less hilly and lower north and rises to 1,340 m (4,400 ft) near Kampala.
The Republic of Uganda, or Uganda, is a country in East Africa, bordered in the east by Kenya, in the north by Sudan, by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest and Tanzania in the south.
Uganda takes its name from the historical Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a portion of the south of the country, including the capital Kampala.
Uganda has been hailed as a rare success story in the fight against HIV and AIDS, widely being viewed as the most effective national response to the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
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