Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni stated Saturday an airstrike by the east African nation’s navy had killed members of an Islamic State (IS)-allied insurgent group together with a key individual accountable for bomb assaults in Uganda’s capital.
The strike was carried out in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo on September 16 and intelligence gathered after the strike had confirmed members of group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), had been killed, he stated.
“Plenty of terrorists had been killed, together with the infamous Meddie Nkalubo, who has been the writer of the bombs in Kampala,” Museveni stated in a press release referring to Uganda’s capital.
He didn’t say what number of had been killed.
In December 2021 Uganda launched an operation in jap Congo towards ADF however the group nonetheless carries out assaults each towards civilians and navy targets in Congo and Uganda.
In two of the group’s most devastating assaults in Uganda, suicide bombings in 2021 exterior a serious police station in Kampala and close to the parliament constructing left seven individuals useless.
In June this 12 months, 42 individuals, principally college students, had been massacred at a college in Kasese in western Uganda — one other assault Uganda blamed on ADF.
The insurgent group is extensively believed to hunt to determine an Islamic rule within the east African nation.
It emerged within the Nineties in Uganda’s west however was ultimately routed by the navy and remnants fled into the jungles of jap Congo the place they’ve been working from since then.
ADF nearly by no means ship out statements and haven’t commented on the Ugandan raid.