From AU to UN, East Africa holds the line as peace missions shrink
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inspects a guard of honour during the flagging-off of Uganda’s first AU peacekeeping contingent to Somalia on March 1, 2007. East Africa remains the backbone of global peacekeeping despite shrinking troop numbers and funding.
Despite the decline in numbers and funding for global peace operations, Eastern African countries remain pivotal to multilateral missions, particularly in Somalia, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic (CAR).
This makes the region one of the few enduring pillars of international peacekeeping.
