Ugandan Police foiled a bomb attack on churches by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group Sunday about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the capital Kampala, President Yoweri Museveni said.
Gatekeepers News reports that the ADF, according to AFP, made two bombs, which they “were planning to plant in churches in Kibibi, Butambala”, Museveni wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
But the devices “were reported to police and defused”, he added.
The ADF group has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Earlier on Sunday, Museveni, 79, who has ruled the country since 1986, said Ugandan forces had carried out air strikes against ADF positions in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
“It seems quite a number of terrorists were killed,” the president said on X, without elaborating.
The ADF could attempt “to commit some random terrorist acts” in Uganda following the airstrikes, he warned.
