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2023-07-21 Africa Subsaharan
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DR Congo: Kabila rejects Ugandan accusations of harbouring ADF rebels
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[AFRICANEWS] Former president of the 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...
, Joseph Kabila, has rejected accusations from Uganda that he gave sanctuary to rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces.
Last week, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote...
said that Kabila allowed the Islamist rebel group to expand and exploit mineral resources during the Congolese leader's time in office.
Kabila led the DRC from 2001 to 2019 when current president Félix Tshisekedi took over.
In response to the accusations, Kabila's spokesperson said in a statement his government recognised the ADF as a terrorist organization and kept the international community, including the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
, informed "on the abuses perpetrated by the ADF and the need to intervene".
The spokesperson added that "These international organizations rejected this qualification of the Congolese government of the word 'terrorist'. It is past time that the facts have proven that Joseph Kabila was right and that it was necessary to intervene urgently."
The ADF was founded in 1996 and was originally a Ugandan rebel group, carrying out attacks in the Rwenzori region in western Uganda.
The rebels were eventually driven out and fled over the border into the jungles of eastern DRC.
The ADF, which has pledged allegiance to 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....
, continue to carry out attacks in Congo against both civilian and military targets and also occasionally carry out killings in Uganda.
Last month, fighters crossed the border into Uganda where they attacked a secondary school, massacring 42 people, most of whom were students.
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