Twenty people had been reported arrested by Ugandan police for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last Friday’s (16 June) horrific attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Uganda reels from its deadliest attack in more than a decade after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS, killed 41 civilians, including 37 students, in border town of Mpondwe. “Twenty arrests have been made of suspected collaborators, suspected ADF collaborators,” a police spokesman told the media. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it “an appalling act,” while the United States, a close ally of Uganda, and the African Union also condemned the bloodshed. It was the deadliest attack in Uganda since twin bombings in Kampala in 2010 killed 76 people in a strike claimed by the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab group.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 20, 2023 18:44 UTC