Three Ugandans ,Abubukar Swalleh and Hamidah Nabbaggala implicated as key figures in ISIS FACILITATION NETWORK OPERATING ACROSS AFRICA

 

These sanctions followed a meeting of the Counter ISIS Finance Group (CIFG), an international coalition focused on disrupting the financial networks of ISIS.

The US Treasury labelled the three as ‘key financiers and trusted operatives’ who support ISIS operations across Central, Eastern and Southern Africa.

They are said to be crucial links between various ISIS operations, including those in the DRC, Mozambique, Somalia and South Africa.

This action builds on earlier investigations by CIFG into South African links to ISIS.

In March, it was reported that South African banks were used to transfer funds from ISIS leadership in Somalia to their affiliates in central Africa.

The US Treasury has previously sanctioned individuals and companies in South Africa connected to a local ISIS cell led by Durban businessman Farhad Hoomer, who has denied the allegations.

Swalleh, originally from Uganda, is accused of physically transferring funds from South Africa to the DRC and assisting in the movement of ISIS-affiliated individuals between Uganda and South Africa.

Mohamed Ali Nkalubo, an ISIS commander in the DRC, reportedly relies on Swalleh for financial transfers and recruitment for the ISIS DRC affiliate.

Swalleh, under Nkalubo’s direction, has been involved in criminal activities such as robbery and kidnapping to fund ISIS.

This marks one of the first official confirmations of ISIS operatives in South Africa using these methods to generate funds.

Abubakar Swalleh (Swalleh) is a South Africa- and Zambia-based ISIS operative. He is involved in the physical transfer of funds from South Africa to the DRC. Additionally, Swalleh facilitates the movement of ISIS-affiliated individuals from Uganda to South Africa, and vice versa. Mohamed Ali Nkalubo, a DRC-based ISIS commander previously designated by the Department of State on December 8, 2023, relies on Swalleh to move funds and recruit members for ISIS’s DRC affiliate. Swalleh moved to South Africa under Nkalubo’s direction, where he has been involved in robberies and kidnap for ransom. Zayd Gangat (Gangat) is a South Africa-based ISIS facilitator and trainer. ISIS leaders in South Africa have historically used robbery, extortion, and kidnap for ransom operations to generate funds for the group.

DRC-based Hamidah Nabagala (Nabagala) serves as an intermediary for ISIS financial flows in central Africa. Additionally, Nabagala has been accused of funding the October 2021 Kampala bombing, which killed one and injured at least three others. In 2021, Ugandan authorities arrested an ISIS operative that had received funding from Nabagala. She also sought to smuggle her three children out of Uganda to send them to ISIS-affiliate camps in the DRC.

Swalleh, Nabagala, and Gangat are being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, ISIS, a person whose property and interest in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13224.

Tshisekedi accuses President Ruto of siding with Rwanda

On a TV talk show,Tshisekedi accused William Ruto “There were two meetings that took shape, that of the East African region which was driven by former President Ururu Kenyatta unfortunately which was subsequently managed by the new President William Ruto, who managed very, very badly because today this process is almost dead, because President Ruto took up the cause of Rwanda. I don’t want to say more,” said Tshisekedi 

Soldiers from FARDC based in Sake at North Kivu were trained in the use of aerial surveillance

Soldiers from FARDC based in Sake at North Kivu were trained in the use of aerial surveillance equipment by Indian peacekeepers  from MONUSCO over the last three months to contribute to protection of civilians.

Two high ranking alshabaab members surrender to Somali National army

 Two high-ranking Al-Shabaab members have surrendered to the Somali National Army ibn Bula Marer district, Lower Shabelle region.

According to a government statement, Abdi Mohamed Araaye who was in charge of the militant group’s finances and extortion ring had been a member of the group for 14 years before his surrender on Tuesday.

Khalif Mohamed Abdi, known as Khalid, who had been a member of the Al-Shabaab for ten years, also surrendered to the armed forces, specifically the 19th unit of the 3rd brigade.

Several Al-Shabaab militants have surrendered to national forces in various parts of the country following the government’s amnesty offer to members of the group and the intense operations carried out by the Somali National Army and regional forces.

Earlier this week, at least 80 Al-shabaab fighters were killed in a botched attempt to overrun a military camp in Jubbaland state

The government forces repelled the attacks and safely detonated four car bombs around 80 km (50 miles) southwest of the port city of Kismayo in Jubbaland State.

Alshabaab claims several attacks today,including an IED attack that killed 5 Ethiopian soldiers

 

AlShabaab claims killing 5 Ethiopian soldiers in an IED explosion in Qansahdhere town, Bay region, today,

In another post, this Wednesday the group claims killing "more than 13" SNA soldiers, capturing weapons and motorcycles in an ambush near Runnirgod district, Middle Shabelle region.

It also claims ,it has ambushed govt forces near Masagaway, Galgadud, killing a number of soldiers.

General Makenga of M23 among the list of those to be prosecuted by Kinshasha gorvenment

 

Public trial of Naanga and his allies, former journalist Magloire Paluku on the list of accused, prosecuted for war crimes, participation in an insurgency movement and treason in the Eastern part of the DRC.

Here is the full list.

1.Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo

2.Colonel Nziramakenga Ruzandiza Emmanuel alias Sultani

3.Colonel Byamungu Bernard

4.Major Ngoma Willy

5.Safari Bishori Luc

6.Samafu Makinou Nicaise

7.Nangaa Baseyane Putters

8.Nkuba Shebandu Eric alias Malembe

9.Nkangya Nyamacho alias Microbe

10.Monkango Nganga Brenda

11.Ilunga Kalonzo André

12.Tshibimba Kalonji Ange

13.Maggie Walifetu Henri

14.Biyoyo Yahunze Josué

15.Chalwe Munkutu Adam

16.Alumba Lukamba Omokoko J.P

17.Tshisola Yannick

18.Bisimwa Bertrand

19.Lubanda Nazinda Yvette

20.Kaj Kayembe Fanny

21.Mamba Kabamba Jean Jacques

22.Lubala Ntwali Fabrice

23.Lawrence Kanyuka

24.Delion Kimbulungu

25.Paluku Kavunha Magloire

Lusheke JB dismissed by kinshasha from his duties

Tshisekedi ,president of the republic dismisses the head of P-DDRCS, one day after a document attesting to his seevice mission in uganda .

 Mr. BAHALA OKW'IBALE LUSHEKE Jean-Bosco, national coordinator of the Disarmament, Demobilization, Community Recovery and Stabilization Program was revoked.

Court rule against Nanga launched in kinshasha

DRC wishes to inform public opinion, both national and international, of the opening of a public trial against “Corneille NANGAA and his accomplices, from this Wednesday July 24, 2024, before the Military Court of Gombe ”

Truth is that there are Peace talks over the North kivu conflicts!

Uganda is hosting peace talks between the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and an alliance of rebel groups including the M23 militia, a Ugandan official said on Monday.

While the negotiations were confirmed by a source within M23, Kinshasa said no-one had been mandated by the government to hold any discussions with "terrorist" groups.

The M23, which had lain dormant for about a decade, launched an offensive in North Kivu province in eastern DRC at the end of 2021 and since then has seized large swathes of territory.

The conflict in the mineral-rich region has killed scores of people and displaced several million more.

But the situation has been relatively calm since a 15-day extension of a humanitarian truce between M23 rebels and government forces was announced last week.

"A high-level delegation from the DRC government and M23/AFC are meeting in Kampala to bring peace in DRC," an official in the office of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told AFP.

The creation of the AFC, or Alliance Fleuve Congo, grouping several rebel outfits was announced in December by Corneille Nangaa, the former head of the DRC's election commission, who is living in exile in Kenya.

The Ugandan official said Museveni will also take part in the negotiations along with Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta, who has been mediating in the conflict on behalf of the East African Community.

Both Kenya and Angola have been involved in mediating peace talks between the warring parties in the past.

"Given the complexities involved, this is still a secret meeting but the details will be made public later," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

"Our wish is to have a permanent ceasefire and peace returning to DRC."

A source within the M23 confirmed the talks but said they had not yet started.

"All I know, they were called to Kampala, nothing else," the source told AFP in Goma, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

But DRC Communications Minister and government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said on X: "No-one has been mandated by the government for any such discussion with the terrorists of the RDF (Rwanda Defence Force) or M23 in Kampala."

Jean Bosco Bahala, coordinator of the Disarmament, Demobilisation, Community Recovery and Stabilisation Programme (P-DDRCS) in the DRC, said he was currently in Kampala but also denied any talks were going on with M23.

"The thing about any negotiation with the M23 is false," he told AFP in Goma.

"The P-DDRCS is in discussions with Uganda for the repatriation of Congolese children released by the LRA in the Central African Republic, that's all," he said.

He was referring to the Lord's Resistance Army, which launched a bloody rebellion against Museveni in 1986, killing more than 100,000 people and abducting 60,000 children in a decades-long reign of terror that spread to Sudan, the DRC and the Central African Republic.

Last week, Kinshasa summoned Uganda's charge d'affaires following a experts' report commissioned by the UN Security Council that said Kampala was giving "active support" to the M23.

Uganda's deputy defence spokesman Deo Akiiki has described the allegations as "laughable, baseless and illogical".

The experts' report also said 3,000 to 4,000 Rwandan soldiers had been fighting alongside the M23 rebels in the mineral-rich east and that Kigali had "de facto control" of the group's operations.

UPDF and FARDC should know that ADF took refugee to mambasa forest

 

ADF rebels, hunted by joint operations of the Congolese and Ugandan armies in the Irumu territory, are advancing towards the Mambasa forest. This displacement is leading to population movements and a paralysis of agricultural activities, as reported by local civil society actors on Monday, July 22.

The rebels, fleeing military pressure in the chiefdom of Walesse Vonkutu, are trying to resettle in the neighbouring territory of Mambasa. On Friday, a group of ADF was seen by the population crossing the Lolwa-Mungamba road around 5pm, causing a massive displacement of residents from several villages in the area.

Agricultural activities are almost completely paralyzed, with residents fearing ambushes by the rebels. The NGO Convention for the Respect of Human Rights expresses its deep concern about this advance of the ADF away from the borders with Uganda and towards the interior of the country, leading to incessant displacement of the population.

The NGO calls on the government to deploy the army to counter this armed group before it reaches Mambasa and to implement all necessary means to dismantle them.

"We must review the agreements signed with Uganda concerning these joint FARDC-UPDF operations. It is also essential to find ways to stop the ADF and reorganize our army in order to put an end to this war imposed by the rebels," said Christophe Munyanderu, coordinator of the NGO Convention for the Respect of Human Rights.

In disarray, the ADF rebels are now operating in small groups in various localities in the Irumu and Mambasa territories, further complicating the security situation in the region.