A bomb blast in the eastern city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least six people on Saturday, officials and AFP reported. On November 30, the DRC and Uganda launched a joint operation against the ADF in the east of the country to try to quell the bloody ADF attacks. The ADF was historically a Ugandan rebel coalition whose biggest group comprised Muslims opposed to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. But it established itself in eastern DRC in 1995, becoming the deadliest of scores of outlawed forces in the troubled region. The Islamic State group presents the ADF as its regional branch -- the Islamic State Central Africa Province, or ISCAP.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 26, 2021 09:43 UTC