Military officials from Uganda and Burundi traveled to Israel last week to discuss deploying troops to Gaza as part of the International Stabilization Force, the Associated Press reported. A Board of Peace official told the AP that Ugandan officers joined a Burundian delegation and that Uganda is finalizing the details of its participation.
The force is to number 20,000, commanded by U.S. Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers. Against that, the pledges are: Uganda about 1,200, Morocco up to 500, and Kosovo, Kazakhstan and Albania roughly 80 between them. That is under a tenth of the requirement, and Uganda alone would be two-thirds of it.
Uganda’s parliament authorized the deployment on Aug. 6, making Uganda the first sub-Saharan African state to commit. Two objections were raised in the debate: Uganda’s membership in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the risk to the candidacy of Olara Otunnu, whom Uganda nominated on July 24, with President Museveni’s backing, for Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The force was authorized by Security Council Resolution 2803 on Nov. 18, 2025, adopted 13-0 with China and Russia abstaining, and runs to Dec. 31, 2027. It carries UN authorization but answers to Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
