Islamist rebel commander killed in Ugandan rainforest – army

Uganda’s army said it killed a commander of a unit of the Islamist rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) blamed for a string of deadly attacks including a massacre at a boarding school.
Musa Kamusi – high on the army’s ‘Most Wanted’ list – was killed in an operation in Kibale National Park, a rainforest in western Uganda near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, army spokesman Deo Akiiki said.
Authorities have accused Kamusi’s unit of killing 37 students in a school near the border in June, a honeymooning couple from Britain and South Africa and their Ugandan guide in October, and ten farmers and bar customers near the national park on Dec. 18.
“Our troops hunting down ADF elements in Kibale forest… managed to kill one of the ADF suspected leaders,” Akiiki said in a statement late on Wednesday.
He did not go into further details, but Caleb Weiss, an expert on political violence in Africa with the Bridgeway Foundation, wrote on X it reportedly happened earlier the same day.