Africa should confront terrorism threat

Somalia National Army soldiers at a bomb demolition site in Kismayo on October 13, 2022. [Brian Otieno, Standard]

An attack by militants on a school in western Uganda left at least 37 people, the majority of them children, died last Friday. The attack was reportedly carried out by members of Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan militant group that is based in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is linked to the Islamic State.

In Kenya, eight police officers were killed when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device suspected to have been planted by Al Shabaab last week. On Sunday, at least two Kenya Defence Forces troops were killed after they responded to an attack on a General Service Unit (GSU) team in Lamu which left 10 GSU officers injured. Several other terror incidents have caused death in the recent past in Kenya.