Uganda Salvation Front Explained

The Uganda Salvation Front (alternately Uganda Salvation Army) was a terrorist organization operating in eastern Uganda.

Activities

• In 1998, the USF attacked Tororo Prison and abducted several inmates.^[1]
• In 1999, David Nyekorach-Matsanga, a senior official of the Lord's Resistance Army, announced his resignation. Matsanga stated that the LRA had become a tool of the Sudanese government, and that he would continue the fight to remove Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with his own rebel group: the USF.^[2]

Sources

• Uganda: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999 Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State. February 2000*

Notes and References

1. https://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/uganda/Uganweb-09.htm VII. THE MOVEMENT SYSTEM AND THE CONFLICTS IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN UGANDA
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/312322.stm Ugandan rebel official resigns