DR Congo war continues despite the defeat of M23 fighters last year
By KEVIN J KELLEY Special Correspondent
Posted Saturday, February 1 2014 at 19:02
A new front was opened in the eastern DRC in mid-January when the
government army launched attacks against increasingly active Islamist
fighters known as the Alliance of Democratic Forces-National Army for
the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU).
The group maintains training camps and well-stocked arsenals in the
Rwenzori Mountains near the DRC's border with Uganda, according to a
report by a UN expert panel.
Violent turmoil is continuing in large parts of the Democratic
Republic of Congo despite the defeat last year of M23, a once-powerful
rebel group.
A new front was opened in the eastern DRC in mid-January when the
government army launched attacks against increasingly active Islamist
fighters known as the Alliance of Democratic Forces-National Army for
the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU).
A Congolese government spokesman predicted success for the offensive
against a group advocating the overthrow of Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni.
"The ADF is not strong like M23," Lambert Mende told a UN-supported
information network."
They don't enjoy foreign support like M23 did. We are going to defeat them."
The top Ugandan military officer agreed that the campaign against
ADF-NALU is going well.
"We are providing and sharing intelligence information with our
Congolese counterparts for the demise of ADF-NALU," Gen Edward Katumba
Wamala, Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, told the United Nations
information network.
But ADF-NALU — which includes as many as 1,400 fighters from Somalia
and Tanzania as well as from Uganda — has allegedly been forging links
with Al Shabaab, the UN information network reports.
The group maintains training camps and well-stocked arsenals in the
Rwenzori Mountains near the DRC's border with Uganda, according to a
report by a UN expert panel. ADF-NALU also conducted a looting
campaign last year in apparent preparation for a military offensive.
Following the rout of M23 late last year by a combined Congolese
army/UN combat force, thousands of rebels from various groups
surrendered, but ADF-NALU remained fully intact, the UN reported.
Worries are meanwhile being expressed regarding a possible resurgence
by M23. The UN committee monitoring sanctions against the DRC reported
last week that M23 is recruiting fighters inside Rwanda, with the
group's operatives also "moving freely in Uganda." The Security
Council unanimously adopted that report.
Rwanda and Uganda have denied giving support or refuge to M23.
READ: M23 rebels deny UN accusations of fresh recruitment
UN monitors have repeatedly cited evidence of such collaboration,
however, with the United States and other powers accepting those
findings and urging Rwanda to cease its backing for rebels inside the
DRC.
The US intelligence chief last week offered a cautious and nuanced
prognosis for the eastern DRC as part of his agency's annual global
threat assessment.
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