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Voters are due to go to the polls next August but Kenyatta will not be on the ballot due to a constitutional term limit of two, five-year terms.

In recent years, threats to basic freedoms have increased in the country, particularly under the rule of Hassan's late predecessor, John Magufuli

Army spokesman Leon-Richard Kasonga declined to say how many Ugandan troops were in Congo, how long the joint mission would last, or what toll had been exacted on the ADF.

Last month, President Salva Kiir announced that elections would take place at the end of the transitional period in 2023.

Ugandan authorities blame the ADF, which is affiliated to so-called Islamic State, for a series of bomb attacks in the country since October.

The late Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli reinforced the law initially passed in 2002 which allowed for the expulsion of pregnant schoolgirls.

Police did not provide details on how the seven suspects were killed.

“They attacked the police station and then took the four perpetrators out of the police cell by force and then they drove away,” police spokesperson said.

The top US diplomat spoke for an hour and a half with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at a meeting that was originally scheduled for 10 minutes.

It made its latest claim on Tuesday in the name of its so-called Central African Province (Iscap) on the messaging app Telegram.