The group killing Christians across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo began not as a jihadist organization but as a fragmented Ugandan insurgency with shifting aims and no coherent ideology. What it became, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP), one of the most lethal terrorist organizations currently operating anywhere in the world, is the product of a calculated transformation financed from abroad and driven by a small number of individuals who saw opportunity in the group’s near-collapse.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) emerged in 1996 from a merger of former military officers from the Idi Amin regime, organized under the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), and Islamists from the Salaf Tabliq movement, along with fighters from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Hutu militants from Rwanda.
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