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https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated August 6, 2019UgandaU.S. officials have viewed Uganda as a key security partner in East Africa for over a decade. The country has played a lead role in high-profile counterterrorism and stability operations in the region, most notably in Somalia. Uganda is major recipient of U.S. foreign aid and has been one of the top recipients of U.S. security assistance in Africa. The United States provides logistics, training, equipment, and advisory support to the Ugandan military for its regional operations. Reports of torture and unlawful killings by security forces complicate the bilateral relationship, though, as do growing concerns about Ugandas political trajectory. The country has never had a democratic transition of power. Politics President Yoweri Museveni, who seized power in a rebellion over three decades ago, is among the worlds longest-serving heads of state. Once dubbed part of a “new generation of African leaders,” Museveni, now in his 70s, wrote in 1986, “The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular is not the people but leaders who want to stay in power.” His governments reputation has been marred by reported corruption, re