Ugandan Army: Leader of Militant Group Killed in the West

The Ugandan army announced today, Thursday, that it "killed a commander of the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist rebel group blamed for a series of deadly attacks, including a massacre at a boarding school." Army spokesperson Dio Akiki stated that "Musa Kamusi, who is at the top of the army's 'most wanted' list, was killed in an operation in Kibale National Park, a rainforest in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo." Authorities accused Kamusi's unit of killing 37 students at a school near the border in June, a newlywed couple from Britain and South Africa along with their Ugandan guide in October, and ten farmers and bar patrons near Kibale National Park on December 18.