FARDC Launches Operation Sukola Against ADF/NALU Amid Dismal Morale

From Alex Engwete Mon Jan 20 2014, 17:16:00

(PHOTO: President Joseph Kabila, middle, with Gen. Didier Etumba, left, and Col. Mamadou Ndala, far right, in Goma on November 30, 2013)

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After Operation "Pomme Orange" (Pink Apple) to root out M23 insurgents (October 25-November 10, 2013), the FARDC have just launched this past January 16 Operation "Sukola"--Lingala for "mop up"--against the Ugandan Muslim rebels of ADF/NALU (Allied Democratic Forces/National Army for the Liberation of Uganda).

There's however a huge chasm between the two operations.

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