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Government denies rebel attack on Kasese

    NAIROBI

    Minister of State for Defence Steven Kavuma on Wednesday denied media reports of an attack on the local government headquarters in Kasese town the previous day by the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Kavuma said a “stampede” in Kasese was due to a local business feud that had got out of hand but that no shots had been fired and the situation was now calm, Radio Uganda reported. It had previously been reported by Rwandan and Ugandan news organisations that the ADF had fired warning shots in the air while ransacking and burning local government buildings in the town “to announce that they were not only in Bundibugyo district but also in Kasese.”

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