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Amidst the stream of media attention paid towards the fight against the M23 rebel movement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), there operates another Ugandan-formed, Congolese-staffed rebel organisation, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Although originally Ugandan and formed by a Christian-to-Islam convert Jamil Mukulu, the ADF now bears more similarity to Congolese rebels groups than to Ugandan organisations. The group recruits and consists, in a large part, of Congolese rebels and strong-armed militia that operates within the eastern DRC, and in mid-July ambushed a Jordanian and Nepalese convoy of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO). Put simply, the ADF represents a significant destabilising threat in Central and Eastern Africa.
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