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Terrorism in Uganda primarily occurs in the north, where the Lord's Resistance Army, a militant Christian religious cult that seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government, has attacked villages and forcibly conscripted children into the organization since 1988. [1] The al-Shabbab jihadist group has also staged attacks in the country.
The most deadly ADF attack in Uganda was on 8 June 1998, when the group attacked the Uganda Technical College, Kichwamba in Kabarole District, killing 80 students and abducting about 100. [1] In 1997, another major attack was carried out, when the group threw bombs into taxis and public buildings, [ 2 ] killing more than 50 people and wounding ...
On 9 July, al-Shabaab leader Sheikh Mukhtar Robow had called for attacks against Uganda and Burundi. Al-Shabaab leader Sheik Yusuf Sheik Issa told Reuters "Uganda is a major infidel country supporting the so-called government of Somalia. We know Uganda is against Islam and so we are very happy at what has happened in Kampala.
The attack on the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School marked the first attack by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) jihadists (who are allied to the LRA) on a Ugandan school in 25 years: in June 1998, the Kichwamba massacre took place carried out by ADF at the Uganda Technical College, Kichwamba, near the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
Ugandan troops are ‘pursuing the perpetrators to rescue the abducted students’ the country’s military says
Uganda will attack the town of Bunia in neighbouring eastern Congo unless "all forces" there surrender their arms within 24 hours, the chief of Ugandan defence forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba ...
About Category:Terrorist incidents in Uganda and related categories. The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism, a contentious label.. Value-laden labels—such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources to describe the subject, in which case use in-text ...
Njovu was captured during an exchange of fire on Lake Edward on Uganda's border with Congo. ... The ADF has ties to the Islamic State group. Following the attack on the tourists, Ugandan President ...