‘You’re The Masterminds Behind Terrorism In Africa- President Museveni Blasts US, UK Over Recent Fake Terror Alerts

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday denounced the United States and UK for issuing adverse security advisories to their citizens in Uganda and accused both countries of creating and conserving insecurity in Africa.

Last week the U.S. and UK both issued travel warnings urging their citizens not to travel to Jinja town in eastern Uganda to attend a cultural festival that was held over the weekend, with the UK citing the killing of tourists and the risk of threats against foreigners.

Assailants from the Islamic State-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces on Oct. 17 attacked a honeymooning couple in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park and shot them dead alongside their Ugandan guide.

The U.S. cited unspecified security concerns.

In a statement, Museveni said the British and the Americans were panicking and making a mistake in issuing unwarranted advisories.

“Part of the terrorism in Africa is either created or conserved by some of the actors that try to be global policemen. The chaos in Libya and the surrounding countries of the Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad among others) was caused by some of these actors. The terrorism conservation project in Eastern Congo for the past 20 years is by the UN and which is controlled by some of these actors through the undemocratic structures of that body such as the Security Council,” he said in a statement issued on his X handle on Wednesday.  

“These advisories by some of these actors is another form of interference in our internal affairs by these elements. Moreover, part of the terrorism in Africa is either created or conserved by some of the actors that try to be global policemen,” he added.

“It is amazing how the UN can supervise and coexist with killers of Congolese and Ugandans in Eastern Congo for the last 20 years and they are not bothered at all. They have created free space for all sorts of empty-headed pigs to gather, train, steal resources of Congo, kill Congolese citizens and once in a while kill Ugandans as well as undermining the economic future of the people of the Great Lakes,” he further noted.