Uganda's president on Friday accused United Nations peacekeepers of failing to disarm rebels in the east of neighbouring Congo and said his army should be allowed to hunt them down instead. In an Eid message, President Yoweri Museveni alleged the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) allowed Ugandan Islamist group the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) to operate.
"ADF was defeated in Uganda but they are still in DR Congo with the United Nations. You know, the UN sometimes engages in insecurity conservation. They conserve insecurity. They co-exist with ADF," Museveni said. Museveni said Kinshasa and the UN had denied repeated requests that Uganda be allowed to enter Congo to fight the ADF in its eastern bases.