Military operations of the DRC armed forces against the ADF

The ADF have been operating in the territory of Beni in the province of North Kivu since 1995 and have multiplied acts of violence and clashes against civilian populations. Offensive operations against the ADF intensified and succeeded between 2014 and 2015 and continue to this day. The ADF is a Ugandan rebel group that emerged from tensions within the Ugandan Muslim community. In the early 1990s, members of the Tabligh sect clashed with the Supreme Islamic Council over the leadership of a mosque in Kampala. Following this dispute, Jamil Mukulu and several other Tabligh leaders were arrested. After their release in 1993, they began to mobilize an army in the west of the country (Uganda), with the support of the Sudanese government, in response to Kampala's support for the rebellion of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). ). From 1995, the ADF established themselves in the Congolese part of the Ruwenzori massif in the province of North Kivu.