The United States is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information that could lead to the Leader of an Islamic State-affiliated militia in eastern DRC. The ADF are originally mainly Muslim Ugandan rebels, who have been rooting since the mid-1990s in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they are accused of having massacred thousands of civilians. In 2021, attacks on Ugandan soil were also attributed to them and a joint military operation between the Congolese and Ugandan armies was launched to hunt them down in the Congolese provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. Their leader Musa Baluku, of Ugandan nationality, born in 1975 or 1976 according to the State Department, 2019 made a declaration of allegiance to IS, which now presents the ADF as its branch in Central Africa.

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