The two attacks perpetrated on Tuesday and claimed by the Islamic State Organization had made four deaths in Kampala.
Le Monde with AFP
The Ugandan police announced, Thursday, November 18, having shot down five suspects and arrested 21 people as part of the investigation into a recent double suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State (EI) group and who killed four people to Kampala. Perpetrated by three kamikazes, the two attacks took place two minutes from interval Tuesday morning, first at a check-point near the police headquarters, and near Parliament, in the business district of the capital.
The police attributed these two attacks to a “local group related to ADFs”, the allied democratic forces, a rebellion born in Uganda and active for twenty-five years in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) neighbor. They were claimed by the EI, which refers to ADFs as its “Central African Province” (ISCAP in English). In March, the United States officially declared ADF affiliated with the EI.
Thursday, during a shootout in western Uganda, counter-terrorism agents killed “four suspects in Ntoroko, from where they returned to the DRC,” the press indicated the door -PAROLE OF THE POLICE, FRED ENANGA. A fifth man, Sheikh Abas Muhamed Kirevu, was killed near the capital trying to escape his arrest, he added, the identifier as a local Muslim leader “responsible for the awakening of terrorist cells in Kampala” . The police also arrested 21 suspects, “operational agents, coordinators and terrorist activity”, continued Mr. Enanga.
“The ADFs are refocalizing on Uganda”
The double attack on Tuesday intervened three weeks after two other attacks: a bomb attack against a restaurant of the capital, on October 23, claimed by the ISCAP; and a suicide bombing in a bus near Kampala two days later and unmarked.
The police had indicated at the end of October having arrested “a number of alleged members of ADFs after these attacks, suspected the group to” prepare a serious attack against important infrastructure “. ADFs are considered by the experts as the most murderous of some 120 armed groups that survey the East of the DRC, many of them being the product of two regional wars carried out a quarter of a century.
This rebel group is accused of killing thousands of civilians in the east of the DRC. According to Kristof Titeca, a group specialist academic, “it is increasingly clear that ADFs are refocalizing Uganda”.