Uganda's military tanks at the Kololo show grounds: Only Uganda recorded a drop in its military spending. FILE PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI
Regional economies last year spent $3.2 billion on their military hardware last year, an increase from the previous year, as they sought to modernise their weapons and to tackle the increasing terrorism threat.
Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an independent resource on global security, shows that South Sudan and Kenya continued to be the region’s top spenders on military equipment.
