Uganda is on high-security alert following the infiltration into the country of foreign fighters believed to be of different nationalities from DR-Congo, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia and Zambia.
Whereas Ugandan security broadly describes the group as ‘Allied Democratic Forces—ADF,’ its composition suggests it to be a different formation, whose main objectives remain at large. Although the nature of the threat is not entirely new and has previously been successfully contained, this time the involvement of foreign fighters and tactics used as well as the sophistication behind it, makes it more dangerous as the exact objectives remain unclear.
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Source: Modern Ghana
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