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Uganda is still at risk of violent extremism in defence of religion, ideology, and political goals, a new report released on September 18 shows.

Violent extremism refers to the beliefs and actions of people who support or use violence to achieve ideological, religious, or political goals.

The research cited indoctrination, kinship, Internet, manipulation, peer influence, abduction, self-radicalisation as the methods of recruitment into violent extremism.

"One of the drivers of violent extremism is distorted religious ideologies where many people in the country have acquired violent extremist traits based on distorted religious ideologies, which comes from little or unregulated places of worship," the research revealed.

The assessment was carried out in 19 districts including Kasese, Ntoroko, Gulu, Number, Zombo, Namayingo, Mayuge, Jinja, Wakiso, Masaka, and Kampala by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in partnership with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the European Union.

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