Ugandan ADF Rebel Commander Killed in Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army says it has captured a key base of the Ugandan Islamist ADF rebels in the eastern DRC, and killed an ADF chief of staff. The attack on thе base was a continuation of Operation Sokola, an offensive against the ADF launched by the Congolese army in Beni territory in January 2014. Sokola means "clean-up" in the Congolese language, Lingala. Most of the ADF’s main camps were overrun in the first few months of the operation and about 60...

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