"Uganda wants to use its portion (of US funds) to buy modern weapons for its war against the Lord's Resistance Army rebels," President Yoweri Museveni's media adviser, John Nagenda, said by telephone.
"This money could go a long way to counter some of these weapons possessed by the LRA," he said, without identifying the source or type of LRA's modern arms.
Nagenda called the LRA, rebels which have waged a civil war since 1988 in northern Uganda, the "worst terrorists in the region".
But he said Uganda would not require US troops to deal with the rebels "if it is provided with logistics and intelligence".
The LRA has recently intensified its operations in a protracted campaign notorious for its brutality against civilians and abductions of children, who are forcibly recruited either as soldiers or concubines for rebel commanders.
On Monday, 25 passengers of a bus were killed in an ambush blamed on the LRA, in the northeastern district of Soroti.
The rebel group is on the US blacklist of terrorist groups. – Sapa-AFP.
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