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IS-allied rebel group commander charged with murder of honeymooning tourists

IS-allied rebel group commander charged with murder of honeymooning tourists

A commander in an Islamic State-allied rebel group was charged with nine offences including the murder of a honeymooning tourist couple and their aide in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, court papers showed. Kyoto Abdul Rashid, of the militant Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), was captured earlier this month in a night-time operation by the Ugandan military in which six rebels were also killed. Rashid "with malice aforethought caused the murder" of the couple David and Celia Barlow and their Ugandan aide Eric Ayai, according to a charge sheet seen by Reuters. David Barlow was British while his wife was South African. Rashid was also…
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Islamist militants tie up, kill Congo villagers

Islamist militants tie up, kill Congo villagers

ISLAMIST militants tied up at least 19 villagers and killed them with machetes and other weapons in a raid in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a civil society leader said. Other villagers fled but may have drowned as they tried to cross the Lamia River into Uganda, Maurice Mabele Musaidi told Reuters. "There are still people missing," he said. Musaidi and a spokesperson for Congo's army said the attack in Beni territory's Watalinga chiefdom was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. The ADF…
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Uganda army says it killed rebels that murdered honeymooning tourists

Uganda army says it killed rebels that murdered honeymooning tourists

UGANDA'S military said that it had killed a number of fighters from an Islamic State-linked group who shot dead a honeymooning couple and their guide in a national park last month. Gunmen from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group ambushed David and Celia Barlow and their Ugandan guide Eric Ayai in Queen Elizabeth National Park near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo on October 17. Celia Barlow was South African and her new husband was British. "ADF terrorists whom we have been tracking down since the attack on tourists were finally got and a number of them…
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Suspected Islamist militants kill 26 in east Congo attack

Suspected Islamist militants kill 26 in east Congo attack

SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. They attributed the killings to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group originally from Uganda, now based in eastern Congo, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group and mounts frequent attacks. Local army spokesperson Antony Mwalushayi said the attack against civilians in Oicha was believed to be retaliation for recent army strikes against the ADF. The attackers carried out the slaughter with knives instead of guns,…
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Uganda vows to track down killers of tour guide, honeymoon couple

Uganda vows to track down killers of tour guide, honeymoon couple

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni vowed that Ugandan forces would track down those responsible for the deaths of a safari guide and two foreign tourists who were honeymooning in a national park. Ugandan authorities have accused the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of killing the couple, a South African and a British national, and their Ugandan guide on Tuesday evening near the Queen Elizabeth National Park. The ADF, which began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo since the late 1990s, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State four years ago. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the…
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Congo-based Islamist group stages deadly ambush in Uganda

Congo-based Islamist group stages deadly ambush in Uganda

A rebel group based in Congo and allied to Islamic State killed at least one man and injured another when it ambushed a truck in western Uganda overnight, the army said on Friday, in a relatively rare cross-border attack. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) started as a Ugandan insurgency but has operated from the jungles of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for almost three decades. In 2019 the ADF pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, which has since claimed responsibility for a number of the group's bombings and massacres. At around 01:00 (1000 GMT) on Friday, five ADF fighters…
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Massacre aftermath: Ugandan army rescues three students

Massacre aftermath: Ugandan army rescues three students

THE Ugandan military has rescued three of the six students who were kidnapped by Islamist fighters when they stormed a school in the west of the country last week and massacred 42 people, mostly young students, the army said. "There were six students kidnapped and three have so far been rescued," said military spokesman Felix Kulayigye. A woman with two children who had been kidnapped outside the school was also rescued, together with her children, while two militants were killed and two guns captured, Kulayigye said. On Friday night a group of fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a…
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Uganda detains 20 rebel ‘collaborators’ after student massacre

Uganda detains 20 rebel ‘collaborators’ after student massacre

UGANDAN authorities said 20 people had been detained for questioning about their possible role in the massacre of 42 people, mostly students, by the Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). "At least 20 suspected ADF collaborators have been arrested, to assist with our investigations," the country's police force said in a statement. Those detained, police said, included the school's headteacher. A group of fighters from the Islamic State-linked rebels stormed the Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, a town on Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, at around 11:30 p.m. on Friday. They torched one dormitory that housed boys…
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Uganda sends more troops to pursue attackers who killed 37 students

Uganda sends more troops to pursue attackers who killed 37 students

UGANDA'S President Yoweri Museveni ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students. Members of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) killed the students late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Military and police said the attackers had also abducted six students and fled towards the Virunga National Park across the border. Their fate is unknown. Museveni said more soldiers had joined the pursuit in the area, which includes Rwenzori Mountain, from where the ADF launched their…
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Islamist militants kill at least 35 in east Congo village, army says

Islamist militants kill at least 35 in east Congo village, army says

ERIKAS MWISI ISLAMIST militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel activity, an army spokesperson said. The assailants were members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Anthony Mualushayi said, referring to a Ugandan armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and conducts frequent raids on villages. The attack targeted the village of Mukondi, around 30 km (20 miles) south of the city of Beni in North Kivu province, an area plagued with rebel activity…
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