| Uganda: Army Prepares for Rebel Attacks
The Monitor (Kampala) April 7, 2006 Posted to the web April 6, 2006 Felix Basiime Mbarara FOLLOWING the attack by a group of rebels suspected to be Allied Democratic Forces rebels by the UPDF, the army has cleared most bushes in Bundibugyo district. "We are searching and clearing all bushes in the area. We suspect there could be remnants of the ADF," said the army spokesperson for the region,Lt. Tabaro Kiconco, during an interview on Tuesday. Tabaro said last week, the army repulsed suspected ADF rebels, who were fleeing the UN peacekeepers and the DR Congo troops. He said, however, the situation in Bundibugyo was not alarming. The ADF rebels, who are suspected to have regrouped, crossed from the eastern DR Congo into Uganda through Ntoroko border entry. Tabaro said the rebels have bases in Mwalika, Ngetti and Budiguya, about 25 kilometres in
eastern Congo.
The United Nations says about 2,000 armed Ugandan dissidents operate in eastern DR Congo. Fresh fighting broke out in DRC after September 30, 2005, when the ultimatum given by UN and Kinshasa government to all militia groups to join the government expired. Since then, government and UN forces have killed several rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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