By Risdel Kasasira, KAMPALA
Uganda
At least 10 people have been killed by militants with ties to the Islamic State group during an attack in Uganda’s western district of Kamwenge, the East African nation’s military said Tuesday.
The Allied Democratic Forces militants attacked the
village early Tuesday morning, said the Uganda People’s Defence Forces
spokesperson Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye, without providing further details.
It’s the latest in a series of
attacks this year blamed on the ADF, a group established in the early 1990s by
Ugandan Muslims who said they were sidelined by the policies of Ugandan
President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986.
The ADF militants who attacked
Kamwenge district had crossed from the neighboring Congo last month and were
being hunted by the military, Brig. Kulaigye said. “These ADF attackers are
remnants of the group that is scavenging for food,” he said.
Despite airstrikes and joint security operations by
the militaries of Uganda and Congo, the militants continue to launch deadly
attacks on locals and security forces across the border of the two countries,
including the June attack on a school dormitory in Uganda’s
Kasese district that left more than 40 dead.
In October, the group killed two tourists and their local driver at a
national park in the Kasese district near the border with Congo.
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