Is Uganda at war with Somalia?

Two days after the December 20 Nairobi bombing of a Kampala bound bus, Uganda decided to send 1,800 additional troops to Somalia.
The attack, like the July 11 Kampala twin bombings that left over 70 people dead, is believed to have been motivated by the presence of Ugandan troops in Somalia—Al-Shabaab, the mastermind of the attacks, had threatened to attack Uganda for quite some time.
It is now close to four years since Uganda first got involved in Somalia. And we are yet to see any tangible fruits of this mission, which was supposed to be peacekeeping. Somalis continue to die and those that live do so under quite subhuman conditions.
There is constant exchange of fire between the protagonists, punctuated by suicide bombing attacks. Dead bodies rot on the streets; women deliver their babies on garbage dumps; bombed out buildings are largely inhabitable and deserted and the refugee numbers are soaring.Read More