Seven civilians were killed in a new attack by Ugandan rebels in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official told AFP Sunday.

Amisi Kalonda, a top official in the regional hub of Beni, blamed the killings, which took place near Mbau in the north of troubled North Kivu province, on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who are accused of killing more than 400 people over the last 10 months.

Ugandan rebels have killed three women during an overnight raid in the northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, a research group and the provincial governor said Friday.

"ADF jihadists," Muslim fighters in the Alliance of Democratic Forces from neighboring Uganda, attacked Mayi-Moya in strife-prone North Kivu province on Thursday evening, the Study Centre for the Promotion of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights (Cepadho) said in a statement.

A Ugandan rebel leader accused of killing hundreds of civilians was charged in court Wednesday with crimes against humanity and mass murder, a police spokesman said.

Jamil Mukulu, leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), was arrested in neighboring Tanzania in April, before being extradited to Uganda earlier this month.

Uganda's president on Friday accused United Nations peacekeepers of failing to disarm rebels in the east of neighboring Congo and said his army should be allowed to hunt them down instead.

In an Eid message, President Yoweri Museveni alleged the U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) allowed Ugandan Islamist group the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) to operate.

Ugandan rebels shot dead or burned alive nine people during an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military and humanitarian sources said Wednesday.

The attack on Tuesday targeted several villages about 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Beni, which has been plagued by a string of attacks by the mainly Muslim rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni left crisis talks between Burundi’s rival political factions Wednesday without a deal, but last-ditch efforts following months of violence continued ahead of polls next week.

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to stand for a third consecutive five-year term in an election next Tuesday, despite a constitutional two-term limit, has sparked months of turmoil and an attempted coup in mid-May.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni flew to Burundi Tuesday for crisis talks, as President Pierre Nkurunziza readied for a third term bid in polls next week following months of violence.

Museveni, appointed mediator last week by the five-nation East African Community (EAC), is to push stalled talks between Nkurunziza's ruling CNDD-FDD party and opposition groups.

Ugandan police on Thursday arrested two top opposition leaders and presidential candidates hoping to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni in elections next year, reports said.

Ex-prime minister Amama Mbabazi was arrested in central Uganda, while Kizza Besigye, a leader of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, was arrested at his home just outside the capital Kampala, the state-owned New Vision newspaper said.

Uganda police briefly arrested on Friday an outspoken general believed to be planning to run in presidential elections, and who recently returned to the country after 18 months in self-imposed exile.

David Sejusa was arrested for unlawful assembly after motorbike taxi drivers spotted the general in his car and followed him in the center of the capital Kampala, his lawyer Ladislaus Rwakafuuzi told AFP.

The trial of 13 men accused of taking part in the 2010 Shebab bombings, which killed 76 people in Uganda's capital Kampala, resumed on Monday without the lead prosecutor, who was murdered in March.

Joan Kagezi, Uganda's acting assistant director of public prosecution, was killed by men on a motorbike in front of three of her children. Police are still hunting for the killers and have made several arrests.