Democratic Republic of the Congo: Army close to defeating ADF-NALU ugandan islamist rebels
An U.N.-backed offensive by Democratic Republic of Congo troops has destroyed the bases of an Ugandan Islamist group in the country’s east and should crush the rebels in the next few days, an army spokesman said on Monday.
The Congolese army has been fighting the ADF-NALU militia since December following rebel attacks against civilians in the eastern province of North Kivu.
“We’re progressing well in the operations against ADF-NALU. In a few days we will finish with them,” army spokesman Colonel Olivier Hamuli said in the town of Beni in North Kivu.
“We have destroyed all of the bases which were supporting their supply lines. They’re now badly positioned and in a few days we will overcome them.”