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Uganda has violated a United Nations arms embargo by deploying troops to South Sudan to enactment the government, according to a study published connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025) by UN experts.
Localized warring betwixt the South Sudanese service and militias loyal to erstwhile Vice President Riek Machar, a governmental rival of President Salva Kiir, intensified successful March. Machar's indictment connected September 11 for "crimes against humanity" has fueled fears of a caller civilian war.
In the report, dated precocious November, the sheet of experts tasked by the UN Security Council with monitoring sanctions against South Sudan said Kampala had confirmed the deployment successful March of soldiers from the Ugandan Armed Forces (FDPO) astatine the petition of Mr. Kiir.
Since that archetypal deployment, the sheet "has confirmed the accomplishment of further subject unit and instrumentality and the enlargement of the UPDF beingness successful South Sudan," chiefly stationed a fewer kilometers eastbound of the capital.
Juba has "been capable to trust connected the continued enactment of Ugandan forces, whose equipped troops, tanks and armored vehicles person remained successful South Sudan since March 2025, successful usurpation of the arms embargo" imposed by the Security Council successful 2018, according to the report.
The sheet said that Uganda has confirmed the deployment of 3 subject helicopters, which besides constitutes a apt usurpation of the embargo.
South Sudan, the world's youngest country, gained independency from Sudan successful 2011 but rapidly descended into a five-year civilian warfare betwixt supporters of Kiir and Machar successful which immoderate 400,000 radical died.
A 2018 bid woody ended the warring and created a unity government, but its leaders repeatedly failed to clasp elections oregon unify their equipped forces.
The study described however the governmental and information scenery has evolved since then.
"Years of neglect person fragmented authorities and absorption forces alike, resulting successful a patchwork of uniformed soldiers, defectors and equipped assemblage defence groups that are progressively preoccupied by section struggles," the sheet said.
"With constricted supplies and debased morale, the South Sudan People's Defense Forces has relied progressively connected comparatively indiscriminate aerial bombardments arsenic their main means of disrupting absorption forces," the sheet added.
In May, the Security Council called for an contiguous extremity to the warring and expressed peculiar interest astir reports of the indiscriminate usage of tube bombs.
