Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI, part five, African and American users.

As we've written previously, the MiG-15UTI was widely used across the African continent and that's not counting its Chinese copy, the Shenyang JJ-2/FT-2. On the other hand, the only American user of the UTI was Cuba.
The countries covered in this post are:

• Nigeria: The MiG-15UTIs arrived on to Nigeria in August 1967 from Egypt. They were used in the Nigerian Civil War (AKA Biafran conflict) and later in the 1970s were replaced in the training role by the Czechoslovak Aero L-29.
• Somalia: Back in the 1960s, the Somalian Air Force switched to Soviet material and advisors which were mainly Cuban. Therefore they received four MiG-15UTIs (some sources claiming they were the Shenyang FT-2) in order to train their pilots in the piloting of jet fighters. They took part in the Ogaden War in 1977 and soon after the chaos the country entered in, they left to decay. Some of them were found by US Rangers and Delta forces when they operated in the country in 1992.
• Uganda: The Ugandan People's Defence Air Force employed the MiG-15UTI since its foundation back in 1964. They operated from its capital, as the main trainer aircraft, and were used until they were replaced by the Aero L-29 in the mid-to-late 1970s. 
• Cuba: The MiG-15UTI was the main trainer aircraft of the Cuban Air Force, specially from 1959 onwards when they switched to Soviet equipment. The first aircrafts arrived in Cuba in 1962 making it the main trainer. They had quite a long career sine they kept on serving on that role until 1981 when they were replaced by the Czechoslovak Aero L-39.

Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Air_Force

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Air_Force

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_People%27s_Defence_Force

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolutionary_Air_and_Air_Defense_Force

6. http://www.urrib2000.narod.ru/EqMiG15.html (translated)