Museveni visits Tanzanian peace keepers injured during ADF attack
President Yoweri Museveni who is also the commander of the armed forces on Sunday afternoon visited the four Tanzanian MONUSCO soldiers who suffered injuries after an attack by suspected ADF rebels.
The Tanzanian peace keepers are currently admitted in Nakasero Hospital in Kampala.
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The ADF, a Ugandan rebel outfit on December, 8 killed at least fourteen Tanzanian United Nations peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in a raid on their base in the North Kivu province of DRC in what was been described as the deadliest attack on UN forces in the recent years.
President Museveni was on Sunday afternoon received at Nakasero Hospital by the Tanzanian High Commission’s First Secretary, Brig. Gene. Skilder Makona and expressed sympathy with the 4 casualties who are currently admitted at the hospital.
He also condemned the cowardly and barbaric acts of the attackers.
The medical personnel at the hospital assured the President that the patients are out of danger adding that they will soon be discharged.
Brig. Gen. Makona applauded President Museveni for supporting the peacekeepers and for visiting them at the hospital.
The Ugandan army, UPDF, on Friday afternoon carried out an attack on camps of Allied Democratic Forces in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo in what was described as a preemptive attack on their camps.
“We recently received signals of ADF terrorists who have been building up in the DRC. They have conducted a number of massacres and we have also witnessed attacks on DRC army,” Brig. Karemire , the UPDF spokesperson said of the attack he described as a surgical operation.
“They have been building up in Eastern DRC over the years. They have been recruiting, training and carrying out radicalisation even of women and children while working with foreign jihadists.”
