Uganda’s oil reserves rival the Gulf States’, says US expert.

Just across the border from that epicenter of post-colonial tranquility, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[Ugandan President Yoweri] Museveni‘s name means son of a man of the seventh, meaning from the Seventh Battalion of the Kings Africa Rifles. That seems ironically appropriate, as Uganda is acting as a US proxy in the DRC, Somalia, and Ugandan mercenaries have played a prominent role in Iraq. US proxy warriors in Africa have been referred to as Bush’s Africa Rifles, now Obama’s Africa Rifles, not too different from the colonial proxy war tradition of the King’s Africa Rifles.