Terror in Uganda: What’s driving the Islamic State-linked rebels

Ugandan soldiers from the East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) patrol near one of their bases in Bunagana, Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 19, 2023.

What you need to know:

  • The ADF was thus initially used by Mobutu and Bashir as a weapon in regional rivalries to check Yoweri Museveni’s influence.
  • At the time of its formation in 1995, ADF was a rather weird merger of two vastly different organisations.