Richard Onyonka , Kenya's deputy minister of foreign affairs, said on Wednesday at a forum on Somalia that Uganda has lost more than 2 700 troops since 2007. Onyonko said about three dozen Kenyan forces have died there over the last year.
Neither the African Union nor Uganda has ever confirmed its casualty figures, and several officials who work on Somalia said Onyonko's figure sounded high. Two officials said last month that about 500 Ugandan and Burundian troops have died in Somalia since 2007. A Ugandan spokesperson did not answer calls for comment.