Bilal Katamba News Today

Ugandan military captures key rebel commander in DR Congo offensive-

The UPDF at Mountain Division Headquarters Muhoti Barracks in Fort Portal City has launched a manhunt for three detainees who escaped from their detention facility on Wednesday. The escapees were...

The suspects had been in army custody for over five months

Major Katamba confirmed that pursuit operations are ongoing to apprehend rebels still on the run, having been routed out of Mwalika Valley last year

The rebel group is blamed for causing havoc in villages in Eastern DRC.

The 19 were airlifted by the UPDF to Mountain Division headquarters in Muhooti where they are currently receiving treatment

Army says joint operation reduced ADF’s capacity to fight

In a related development, the joint forces also rescued two girls in a successful attack against the ADF in DR Congo last Friday

More than 40 people, mostly students, have been killed, some of them burned alive, by rebels linked to the Islamic State group at a secondary school in Mpondwe town in western Uganda near the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At least 41 people were killed in a Uganda school attack by the Allied Democratic Forces, an ISIS-linked rebel group.