![]() ![]() The force will as well secure routes where Dott Services construction staff will be based to start construction of roads in the area. Officials say the heavy deployment of weapons and heavily-armed Ugandan forces is aimed at establishing bases to provide security to civilians who are vulnerable to reprisal attacks by fleeing ADF fighters. Tanks and heavy artillery have been crossing from Uganda to DRC. People living near the shared border heard the rumbling of warplanes and a terrifying barrage of explosions that shook the mountains overlooking River Semliki and Lake Albert where the Islamic movement has been hiding since the mid 1990s.ĭefence spokesperson said the “targets were accurately hit” by air and artillery fire. This was coupled with intense and unrelenting artillery and tank fire on ADF’s strategic bases and trenches used by the insurgents to evade airstrikes. The heavy air bombardment, which caught the ADF militants unaware, lasted about two hours.
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