Five Suspected Allied Democratic Forces Rebels Remanded
Buganda Road Magistrates Court has remanded to Luzira prison five people suspected to belong to Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels over terror-related charges. The suspects are Musa Buwule, 35, Fazil Musiitwa, 28, Abdurahaman Zizinga, 23, Abdallah Lubega, alias Tonny, 28, and Hussein Seifu, 19, a Congolese national. The suspects appeared before Grade One Magistrate Joan […]
What It Means to Be An Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) Rebel Captivity
Ravages of war are indelible trails of misery in society. If we were all sensible to the well-being of society we would shun anything to do with war. There are many effects and defects of war that one would not want to recount, yet they remain vivid and cause ill feelings that provoke reactions. In […]
Uganda’s Museveni Slams UN For Failing To Take On Rebels
Uganda’s president on Friday accused United Nations peacekeepers of failing to disarm rebels in the east of neighbouring Congo and said his army should be allowed to hunt them down instead. In an Eid message, President Yoweri Museveni alleged the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) allowed Ugandan Islamist group the Allied […]
DRC requests extradition of Islamist rebel from Tanzania
Kinshasa – Democratic Republic of Congo has sent a delegation to Tanzania to request the extradition of the leader of a Ugandan Islamist group blamed for massacres in eastern Congo, Congo’s justice minister said on Monday. Jamil Mukulu, head of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), was arrested in Tanzania in late April. His group was […]
Fugitive Ugandan Islamic extremist leader arrested in Tanzania
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The fugitive leader of a Ugandan rebel group operating in eastern Congo has been arrested in Tanzania, Ugandan officials said on Thursday. Ugandan police spokesman Fred Enanga told The Associated Press that authorities believe Jamil Mukulu, who had been on the run since the 1990s as leader of an Islamic extremist […]
