Uganda’s military chief, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, on Friday morning issued a hasty apology to the US and deleted posts on X in which he had threatened to rupture relations between Kampala and Washington.
The apology did little to disguise Kampala’s frustration over counterterrorism cooperation with the US, particularly in the fight against al-Shabaab in Somalia. In the deleted posts, Gen Muhoozi accused the US embassy of harbouring opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, who has been in hiding since the announcement of presidential election results on January 18.
