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Forces Democratiques Alliees-Armee Nationale de Liberation de l'Ouganda

Listed by OFAC SDN (US), UK Sanctions List, EU Consolidated List, UN Security Council, SECO (Switzerland)
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Republic of the Congo
First listed 2014-06-30
18 aliases

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EU Consolidated ListActive listingID 7539

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Source date: 2020-10-19
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        <remark>The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was created in 1995 and is located in the mountainous DRC-Uganda border area.</remark>
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            <publicationUrl>https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2020.345.01.0001.01.ENG&amp;toc=OJ:L:2020:345:TOC</publicationUrl>
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            <regulationSummary regulationType="amendment" publicationDate="2014-12-01" numberTitle="1275/2014 (OJ L346)" publicationUrl="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:2014:346:FULL&amp;from=EN"/>
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        </nameAlias>
        <nameAlias firstName="" middleName="" lastName="" wholeName="ADF (Allied Democratic Forces)" function="" title="" nameLanguage="" strong="true" regulationLanguage="en" logicalId="18450">
            <regulationSummary regulationType="amendment" publicationDate="2017-02-07" numberTitle="2017/199 (OJ L32)" publicationUrl="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0199&amp;from=EN"/>
        </nameAlias>
        <nameAlias firstName="" middleName="" lastName="" wholeName="NALU" function="" title="" nameLanguage="EN" strong="true" regulationLanguage="en" logicalId="110793">
            <regulationSummary regulationType="amendment" publicationDate="2017-02-07" numberTitle="2017/199 (OJ L32)" publicationUrl="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0199&amp;from=EN"/>
        </nameAlias>
        <address city="North Kivu Province" street="" poBox="" zipCode="" region="" place="" asAtListingTime="false" countryIso2Code="CD" countryDescription="CONGO, Democratic Republic of (was Zaire)" regulationLanguage="en" logicalId="2684">
            <regulationSummary regulationType="amendment" publicationDate="2014-12-01" numberTitle="1275/2014 (OJ L346)" publicationUrl="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L:2014:346:FULL&amp;from=EN"/>
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Name on list: Forces Democratiques Alliees-Armee Nationale de Liberation de l'Ouganda
Programmes / regimes: COD
Listed on: 2014-06-30
Last updated: 2020-10-19
Aliases: ADF/NALU · ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) · NALU
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Addresses: North Kivu Province, CONGO, Democratic Republic of (was Zaire)
Identifiers: EU reference: EU.3651.51
Legal act: 2020/1507 (OJ L345) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2020.345.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2020:345:TOC
Remarks: The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was created in 1995 and is located in the mountainous DRC-Uganda border area.

OFAC SDN (US)Active listingID 16696

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      <program>FTO</program>
      <program>SDGT</program>
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        <idNumber>section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as amended by Executive Order 13886</idNumber>
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        <uid>25262</uid>
        <stateOrProvince>North Kivu Province</stateOrProvince>
        <country>Congo, Democratic Republic of the</country>
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      <address>
        <uid>47442</uid>
        <stateOrProvince>Rwenzori Region</stateOrProvince>
        <country>Congo, Democratic Republic of the</country>
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      <address>
        <uid>47443</uid>
        <stateOrProvince>South Kivu Province</stateOrProvince>
        <country>Congo, Democratic Republic of the</country>
      </address>
      <address>
        <uid>47444</uid>
        <country>Uganda</country>
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Name on list: ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SYRIA - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Programmes / regimes: DRCONGO · FTO · SDGT
Aliases: ADF · FORCES DEMOCRATIQUES ALLIEES-ARMEE NATIONALE DE LIBERATION DE L'OUGANDA · ADF/NALU · ISLAMIC ALLIANCE OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES · ISIS-DRC · MADINA AT TAUHEED WAU MUJAHEDEEN · CITY OF MONOTHEISM AND HOLY WARRIORS · ISLAMIC STATE CENTRAL AFRICA PROVINCE · WILAYAT CENTRAL AFRICA · WILAYAH CENTRAL AFRICA MEDIA OFFICE · WILAYAT WASAT IFRIQIYAH · ISIS-CENTRAL AFRICA (+2)
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda
Addresses: North Kivu Province, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Rwenzori Region, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
South Kivu Province, Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Uganda

SECO (Switzerland)Active listingID 27961

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Retrieved: 2026-09-29
Source date: 2025-04-08
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<target ssid="27961"><sanctions-set-id>3976</sanctions-set-id><foreign-identifier>CDe.001</foreign-identifier><entity><identity ssid="27963" main="true"><name ssid="30599" name-type="primary-name" quality="good" lang="eng"><name-part order="1" name-part-type="whole-name"><value>ADF</value></name-part></name><name ssid="30600" name-type="formerly-known-as" quality="good" lang="eng"><name-part order="1" name-part-type="whole-name"><value>Forces Démocratiques Alliées - Armée Nationale de Libération de l'Ouganda</value></name-part></name><name ssid="30335" name-type="formerly-known-as" quality="good" lang="eng"><name-part order="1" name-part-type="whole-name"><value>ADF/NALU</value></name-part></name><name ssid="30336" name-type="formerly-known-as" quality="good" lang="eng"><name-part order="1" name-part-type="whole-name"><value>NALU</value></name-part></name><name ssid="30333" name-type="alias" quality="good" lang="eng"><name-part order="1" name-part-type="whole-name"><value>Allied Democratic Forces</value></name-part></name><address ssid="27964" place-id="28458" quality="good"/></identity><justification ssid="27969">The ADF has recruited and used child soldiers in violation of applicable international law (UNSCR paragraph 4 (d)). The United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ("GOE") 2013 final report stated that the GOE interviewed three former ADF fighters who had escaped during 2013 and who described how ADF recruiters in Uganda lure people to the DRC with false promises of employment (for adults) and free education (for children) and then force them to join the ADF. Also according to the GOE’s report, former ADF fighters told the GOE that the ADF’s training groups typically include adult men and boys and two boys who escaped from the ADF in 2013 told the GOE that they had received military training from the ADF. The GOE report also includes an account of ADF’s training by a “former ADF child soldier”. According to the GOE’s 2012 final report, the ADF recruits include children, as exemplified by the case of an ADF recruiter who was captured by Ugandan authorities in Kasese with six young boys on his way to the DRC in Jul 2012. A specific example of the ADF’s recruitment and use of children is seen in a 6 Jan 2009 letter from the former Africa Director for Human Rights Watch, Georgette Gagnon, to Uganda’s former Minister of Justice, Kiddhu Makubuyu, stating that a boy named Bushobozi Irumba was abducted at 9 years of age by the ADF in 2000. He was required to provide transport and other services to ADF fighters. In addition, “The Africa Report” cited allegations that the ADF is allegedly recruiting children as young as 10 years of age as child soldiers and cited a Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) spokesperson as stating that the UPDF rescued 30 children from a training camp on Buvuma Island in Lake Victoria.</justification><justification ssid="27970">The ADF has also committed numerous violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law against women and children, including killing, maiming, and sexual violence (UNSCR paragraph 4 (e)). According to the GOE 2013 final report, in 2013 the ADF attacked numerous villages, which prompted more than 66,000 people to flee into Uganda. These attacks depopulated a large area, which ADF has since controlled by abducting or killing people who return to their villages. Between Jul and Sep 2013, ADF decapitated at least five people in the Kamango area, shot several others, and kidnapped dozens more. These actions terrorized the local population and deterred people from returning home. The Global Horizontal Note, a monitoring and reporting mechanism of grave violations against children in situations of armed conflict, reported to the Security Council’s Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) that during the Oct to Dec 2013 reporting period, ADF was responsible for 14 of the 18 child casualties documented, including in an

Name on list: ADF
Programmes / regimes: Congo
Listed on: 2014-08-12
Last updated: 2025-04-08
Aliases: Forces Démocratiques Alliées - Armée Nationale de Libération de l'Ouganda · ADF/NALU · NALU · Allied Democratic Forces
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Addresses: North Kivu Province, Congo DR
Identifiers: Foreign identifier: CDe.001
SECO related target: 3217
SECO related target: 41278
Remarks: The ADF has recruited and used child soldiers in violation of applicable international law (UNSCR paragraph 4 (d)). The United Nations Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s ("GOE") 2013 final report stated that the GOE interviewed three former ADF fighters who had escaped during 2013 and who described how ADF recruiters in Uganda lure people to the DRC with false promises of employment (for adults) and free education (for children) and then force them to join the ADF. Also according to the GOE’s report, former ADF fighters told the GOE that the ADF’s training groups typically include adult men and boys and two boys who escaped from the ADF in 2013 told the GOE that they had received military training from the ADF. The GOE report also includes an account of ADF’s training by a “former ADF child soldier”. According to the GOE’s 2012 final report, the ADF recruits include children, as exemplified by the case of an ADF recruiter who was captured by Ugandan authorities in Kasese with six young boys on his way to the DRC in Jul 2012. A specific example of the ADF’s recruitment and use of children is seen in a 6 Jan 2009 letter from the former Africa Director for Huma

UK Sanctions ListActive listingID DRC0015

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Retrieved: 2026-09-29
Source date: 2022-01-14
Extractor: uk-xml-parser

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<Designation>
    <LastUpdated>14/01/2022</LastUpdated>
    <DateDesignated>30/06/2014</DateDesignated>
    <UniqueID>DRC0015</UniqueID>
    <OFSIGroupID>13189</OFSIGroupID>
    <UNReferenceNumber>CDe.001</UNReferenceNumber>
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      <Name>
        <Name6>ADF (Allied Democratic Forces)</Name6>
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      <Name>
        <Name6>Allied Democratic Forces</Name6>
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      <Name>
        <Name6>Forces Democratiques Alliees-Armee Nationale de Liberation de l'Ouganda</Name6>
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    <RegimeName>The Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019</RegimeName>
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    <SanctionsImposed>Asset freeze</SanctionsImposed>
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      <TargetedArmsEmbargo>false</TargetedArmsEmbargo>
      <CharteringOfShips>false</CharteringOfShips>
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      <CrewServicingOfShipsAndAircraft>false</CrewServicingOfShipsAndAircraft>
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      <PreventionOfBusinessArrangements>false</PreventionOfBusinessArrangements>
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    </SanctionsImposedIndicators>
    <OtherInformation>ADF founder and leader, Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015), was arrested in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in April 2015. He was subsequently extradited to Kampala, Uganda in July 2015. As of June 2016, Mukulu is reportedly being held in a police detention cell awaiting his trial. Seka Baluku (CDi.036) succeeded Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015) as the overall leader of the ADF. As highlighted in several reports from the Group of Experts on the DRC (S/2015/19, S/2015/797, S/2016/1102, S/2017/672, S/2018/531, S/2019/469, S/2019/974, S/2020/482), the ADF, including under Seka Baluku’s leadership, continued to commit the repeated targeting, killing and maiming, rape and other sexual violence, abduction of civilians, including children, as well as attacks on villages and health facilities, in particular in Mamove, Beni territory, on 12 and 24 February 2019, and Mantumbi, Beni territory, on 5 December 2019 and 30 January 2020, as well as the continuous recruitment and use of children during attacks and for forced labour in Beni territory in the DRC since at least 2015. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities.</OtherInformation>
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        <AddressCountry>Congo (Democratic Republic)</AddressCountry>
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Name on list: ADF (Allied Democratic Forces)
Programmes / regimes: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Listed on: 2014-06-30
Last updated: 2022-01-14
Aliases: ADF/NALU · Allied Democratic Forces · Forces Democratiques Alliees-Armee Nationale de Liberation de l'Ouganda · NALU · Forces Démocratiques Alliées-Armée Nationale de Libération de l’Ouganda
Countries: Republic of the Congo
Addresses: North Kivu Province, Congo (Democratic Republic)
Identifiers: UN reference: CDe.001
OFSI group ID: 13189
Remarks: ADF founder and leader, Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015), was arrested in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in April 2015. He was subsequently extradited to Kampala, Uganda in July 2015. As of June 2016, Mukulu is reportedly being held in a police detention cell awaiting his trial. Seka Baluku (CDi.036) succeeded Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015) as the overall leader of the ADF. As highlighted in several reports from the Group of Experts on the DRC (S/2015/19, S/2015/797, S/2016/1102, S/2017/672, S/2018/531, S/2019/469, S/2019/974, S/2020/482), the ADF, including under Seka Baluku’s leadership, continued to commit the repeated targeting, killing and maiming, rape and other sexual violence, abduction of civilians, including children, as well as attacks on villages and health facilities, in particular in Mamove, Beni territory, on 12 and 24 February 2019, and Mantumbi, Beni territory, on 5 December 2019 and 30 January 2020, as well as the continuous recruitment and use of children during attacks and for forced labour in Beni territory in the DRC since at least 2015. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities. Sanctions imposed: A

UN Security CouncilActive listingID 6908402

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Source: UN Security Council
Retrieved: 2026-09-30
Source date: 2020-08-19
Extractor: un-xml-parser

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<ENTITY>
      <DATAID>6908402</DATAID>
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      <UN_LIST_TYPE>DRC</UN_LIST_TYPE>
      <REFERENCE_NUMBER>CDe.001</REFERENCE_NUMBER>
      <LISTED_ON>2014-06-30</LISTED_ON>
      <COMMENTS1>ADF founder and leader, Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015), was arrested in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in April 2015. He was subsequently extradited to Kampala, Uganda in July 2015. As of June 2016, Mukulu is reportedly being held in a police detention cell awaiting his trial. Seka Baluku (CDi.036) succeeded Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015) as the overall leader of the ADF. As highlighted in several reports from the Group of Experts on the DRC (S/2015/19, S/2015/797, S/2016/1102, S/2017/672, S/2018/531, S/2019/469, S/2019/974, S/2020/482), the ADF, including under Seka Baluku’s leadership, continued to commit the repeated targeting, killing and maiming, rape and other sexual violence, abduction of civilians, including children, as well as attacks on villages and health facilities, in particular in Mamove, Beni territory, on 12 and 24 February 2019, and Mantumbi, Beni territory, on 5 December 2019 and 30 January 2020, as well as the continuous recruitment and use of children during attacks and for forced labour in Beni territory in the DRC since at least 2015. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice:https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities</COMMENTS1>
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        <VALUE>2020-08-19</VALUE>
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        <ALIAS_NAME>Forces Démocratiques Alliées-Armée Nationale de Libération de l’Ouganda</ALIAS_NAME>
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        <ALIAS_NAME>NALU</ALIAS_NAME>
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Name on list: ADF
Programmes / regimes: DRC
Listed on: 2014-06-30
Last updated: 2020-08-19
Aliases: Allied Democratic Forces · Forces Démocratiques Alliées-Armée Nationale de Libération de l’Ouganda · ADF/NALU · NALU
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Addresses: North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Identifiers: UN reference: CDe.001
Remarks: ADF founder and leader, Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015), was arrested in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in April 2015. He was subsequently extradited to Kampala, Uganda in July 2015. As of June 2016, Mukulu is reportedly being held in a police detention cell awaiting his trial. Seka Baluku (CDi.036) succeeded Jamil Mukulu (CDi.015) as the overall leader of the ADF. As highlighted in several reports from the Group of Experts on the DRC (S/2015/19, S/2015/797, S/2016/1102, S/2017/672, S/2018/531, S/2019/469, S/2019/974, S/2020/482), the ADF, including under Seka Baluku’s leadership, continued to commit the repeated targeting, killing and maiming, rape and other sexual violence, abduction of civilians, including children, as well as attacks on villages and health facilities, in particular in Mamove, Beni territory, on 12 and 24 February 2019, and Mantumbi, Beni territory, on 5 December 2019 and 30 January 2020, as well as the continuous recruitment and use of children during attacks and for forced labour in Beni territory in the DRC since at least 2015. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice:https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities

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