During a press conference last Friday, Ugandan Security Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa, told the United Nations his country will retract its forces from all U.N. peacekeeping missions. Mukasa said this action was proposed “in order to concentrate on our own security.”

Soldiers will be sent to protect the country’s Eastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi told Parliament last

Thursday. In 2007, the DRC and Uganda almost engaged in war, after Congolese troops attacked a Heritage Oil Plc exploration vessel on Lake Albert, killing one of its contract workers.

The decision to take troops out of peacekeeping missions was proposed after a leaked U.N. report accused Uganda of aiding the Congolese M23 rebels, who led attacks on government forces in the mineral-rich Eastern part of the DRC. Mukasa said Uganda never gave “any single form of assistance or military training” to the M23.