Questions in Uganda and the DRC after the attack, in the night from Friday to Saturday, of a high school in Mpondwe, a city bordering the Congolese territory of Beni where the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) impose horror for a decade.
The attack attributed according to the Ugandan authorities, to members of this armed group affiliated with the Islamic State since 2019 and which claimed the lives of at least 41 people, most of whom are high school students. Questions persist about the security system in such a militarized region.
Whether on the Congolese or Ugandan side, military sources claim that the assailants who attacked the school had already been on Ugandan territory for a few days, taking advantage of the porous borders to cross to their home in Uganda.
The armies of the two countries have focused their joint operations more on the interior, without prioritizing increased border surveillance, according to an administrative source from the Congo.
Ugandan-Congolese troops attacked Lubirhia high school in retaliation for their advances in Beni territory and Ituri province, according to a Congolese spokesman.
In his speech on Sunday evening, President Yoweri Museveni announced that joint troops had taken over and demolished several ADF strongholds in eastern DRC in recent months.