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Goma, DR Congo | AFP |  Seven people were killed overnight in an attack in eastern DR Congo blamed on Ugandan rebel group the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the army said Thursday. “The ADF killed seven people and burned down houses” in Kasinga in the Beni region, army spokesman Mak …

Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebel leader Jamil Mukulu has been moved to Luzira Prison in Kampala following an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to have him transferred from Nalufenya. State Attorney Thomas Jatiko made the application before Jinja Court Chief Magistrate John Francis Kaggwa on Tuesday, explaining that inquiries …

VIDEO: Legislators on the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee of Parliament have visited former Allied Democratic Front leader Jamilu Mukulu who is detained at Nalufenya Police in Jinja to assess the alleged torture and inhumane treatment against him. The legislators led by committee chairperson Judith Nabakoba, grilled the Nalufenya police officers …

Beni, DR Congo | AFP |  Six suspected members of a Ugandan rebel group went before a Congolese military court on Saturday accused of taking part in the killing last weekend of 51 people, the latest in a string of massacres in the restive east of the country. The gruesome …

Goma, DR Congo | AFP | At least 36 people have been killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said Sunday, calling it a massacre in revenge for military operations in the area. Three days of national mourning have been declared following Saturday night’s mass killing, the …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati June ended with reports that suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels had attacked Mutwanga, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo killing 16 civilians. The resurfacing of the ADF in the Eastern Congo town which is 50 kilometres from the Uganda border has left the …