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Africa Subsaharan

Uganda: UN experts say ADF financed by Islamic State group

2023-06-20

[AFRICANEWS] UN experts have established that the ADF rebels active in the east of the DRC and accused of Friday's attack on a high school in Uganda were receiving financial support from the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group and were seeking to expand their area of operations, according to a report consulted by AFP on Monday.

One of the many gangs scouring the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) are among the deadliest, accused of killing thousands of civilians.

Originally Ugandan rebels, mostly Moslem, who have been present in the DRC since the 1990s, they pledged allegiance in 2019 to the ISIS, which claims responsibility for some of their actions and presents them as its "central African province" (ISCAP).

But their funding by the ISIS had not been documented until now.

In its latest report, due to be released this week, the UN panel of experts on the DRC says that the EI has "provided financial support to the ADF since at least 2019, through a complex financial system involving individuals in several countries on the continent, emanating from Somalia and passing through South Africa, Kenya and Uganda".

The experts also state that the ADF have "sent fighters and/or collaborators on reconnaissance missions in an attempt to extend their area of operations beyond the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri".

According to them, "they have sought to recruit and carry out attacks in Kinshasa" as well as in the Congolese provinces of Tshopo, Haut-Uélé (north-east) and Sud-Kivu.

Ugandan officials accuse the ADF of carrying out a raid on a Ugandan secondary school near the Congolese border on Friday night, which left at least 41 people dead.

Uganda and the DRC launched a joint offensive in 2021 to drive the ADF out of their Congolese strongholds, but have so far failed to put an end to the group's attacks.

The UN experts also devote a large part of their study to Rwanda's support for the M23 rebels in North Kivu, which they had already established in previous reports, although Kigali denies this.

They state that they have "obtained further evidence of direct interventions by the Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) on DRC territory" and "identified several RDF commanders and officials coordinating RDF operations in the DRC".

They note that "the security and humanitarian situation in the provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu has continued to deteriorate".

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