Army, ADF rebels clash in Hoima
Apr 27, 2006
THE Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have retreated to their origins in Hoima district, 10 years after the UPDF flushed them out of the Lake Albert shores region of Buseruka.
By E. Allio, Amlan tumusiime and Ismael Kasooha
THE Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have retreated to their origins in Hoima district, 10 years after the UPDF flushed them out of the Lake Albert shores region of Buseruka.
The Uganda Mujahideen Movement (UMM) was defeated by the UPDF in 1996 in Buseruka and Kyangwali sub-counties in Hoima in 1996. Upon defeat, UMM fighters fled to Congo, where they formed the ADF, merging with a splinter group of the West Nile Bank Front and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda.
On Tuesday, gunfire rocked Bugoma forest reserve in Kyangwali sub-county when the UPDF attacked the ADF rebels who are believed to have entered there two weeks ago from Bundibugyo. One rebel was killed and two others captured.
Several people around Bugoma forest fled their homes following the gun-fire which lasted for almost five hours.
“They are part of the ADF rebels fleeing from the fighting in Congo’s Ituri region. We have adequately deployed along the shore of Lake Albert to stop further ADF activities on Uganda soil,†said army spokesperson Maj. Felix Kulaigye.
He said the army recovered a sub-machine gun and several bullets.
The ADF rebels, who fight alongside the Congolese Revolutionary Movement rebels, are fleeing from an offensive of the UN Observer Mission in Congo and the Congolese army.
Kulaigye has urged the people around Bugoma Forest in Hoima and Kibaale districts to be on the look-out for fleeing rebels and urge all remaining rebels to surrender.
ADF camps in western Uganda and eastern Congo were largely destroyed in 2001. In December last year, remnants of ADF were flushed out of Congo Eringeti game reserve and Bundiguya forests.
THE Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have retreated to their origins in Hoima district, 10 years after the UPDF flushed them out of the Lake Albert shores region of Buseruka.
The Uganda Mujahideen Movement (UMM) was defeated by the UPDF in 1996 in Buseruka and Kyangwali sub-counties in Hoima in 1996. Upon defeat, UMM fighters fled to Congo, where they formed the ADF, merging with a splinter group of the West Nile Bank Front and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda.
On Tuesday, gunfire rocked Bugoma forest reserve in Kyangwali sub-county when the UPDF attacked the ADF rebels who are believed to have entered there two weeks ago from Bundibugyo. One rebel was killed and two others captured.
Several people around Bugoma forest fled their homes following the gun-fire which lasted for almost five hours.
“They are part of the ADF rebels fleeing from the fighting in Congo’s Ituri region. We have adequately deployed along the shore of Lake Albert to stop further ADF activities on Uganda soil,†said army spokesperson Maj. Felix Kulaigye.
He said the army recovered a sub-machine gun and several bullets.
The ADF rebels, who fight alongside the Congolese Revolutionary Movement rebels, are fleeing from an offensive of the UN Observer Mission in Congo and the Congolese army.
Kulaigye has urged the people around Bugoma Forest in Hoima and Kibaale districts to be on the look-out for fleeing rebels and urge all remaining rebels to surrender.
ADF camps in western Uganda and eastern Congo were largely destroyed in 2001. In December last year, remnants of ADF were flushed out of Congo Eringeti game reserve and Bundiguya forests.