On June 16, suspected Islamic State in Central Africa Province (ISCAP) fighters conducted a massacre at a boarding school in Uganda that was located just across the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (mazima.ug, June 19). Given their ideology and capabilities, ISCAP is the only group that could have conceivably carried out the attack. In addition, he called for additional troops to be deployed to areas of Uganda that border the DRC. The rest of the region, however, will not remain immune to such violence, as evidenced by spill-over attacks across borders, such as the recent school massacre. Any coordinated regional response in the DRC against ISCAP remain unlikely, however, given the rivalries and troubled relations between the DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Source: CBC News June 26, 2023 18:51 UTC