Mohamed Ali Nkalubo

Owing to his senior leading position and various responsibilities in the ADF, Meddie Nkalubo is therefore involved in planning, directing or committing acts that constitute serious human rights violations or abuses in the DRC. He is also responsible for sustaining the armed conflict, instability and insecurity in the DRC.

The ADF contributes to the armed conflict, instability and insecurity in the DRC (particularly in the Ituri and North Kivu provinces), in particular through violence and serious human rights abuses, including attacks against civilians, killings and abduction.

Meddie Nkalubo is a senior leader of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a non-governmental armed group operating in Uganda, Rwanda and the Eastern DRC. He has been identified as holding various responsibilities in the ADF, including communication and propaganda, recruitment, fabrication of arms, and rapprochement with ISIL (Da’esh). Meddie Nkalubo has also been identified as the leading figure in charge of the ADF’s external operations, tasked with organising and overseeing its external financing and coordinating the flow of ISIL (Da’esh) funds towards the ADF.

Function or profession: senior Allied Democratic Forces leader

Inscrit sur la liste en application des dispositions énoncées aux alinéas b), d), e) et h) du paragraphe 7 de la résolution 2293 (2016), telles que réaffirmées dans la résolution 2688 (2023), au motif qu’il appartient à la direction politique ou militaire de groupes armés étrangers opérant en République démocratique du Congo qui font obstacle au désarmement et au rapatriement ou à la réinstallation volontaires des combattants appartenant à ces groupes; recrute ou utilise des enfants pour le conflit armé en République démocratique du Congo, en violation du droit international applicable ; prépare, donne l’ordre de commettre ou commet en République démocratique du Congo des actes qui constituent des violations des droits de l’homme ou atteintes à ces droits ou des violations du droit international humanitaire, selon le cas, notamment des actes dirigés contre des civils, y compris des meurtres et mutilations, des viols et d’autres violences sexuelles, des enlèvements, des déplacements forcés et des attaques contre des écoles et des hôpitaux; agit au nom ou sur instruction d’une personne ou d’une entité désignée ou agit au nom ou sur instruction d’une entité qui appartient à une personne désignée ou qu’elle contrôle. En tant que dirigeant des ADF (CDe.001), MOHAMED ALI NKALUBO participe à la promotion des activités de ce groupe armé et les appuie. Il assure par ailleurs le commandement et le contrôle effectifs des combattants du groupe.

Listed pursuant to paragraphs 7 (b), 7 (d), 7 (e), and 7 (h) of resolution 2293 (2016) as “being political and military leaders of foreign armed groups operating in the DRC who impede the disarmament and the voluntary repatriation or resettlement of combatants belonging to those groups; “recruiting or using children in armed conflict in the DRC in violation of applicable international law; “planning, directing, committing acts in the DRC that constitute human rights violations or abuses or violations of international humanitarian law, as applicable, including those acts involving the targeting of civilians, including killing and maiming, rape and other sexual violence, abduction, forced displacement, and attacks on schools and hospitals”; and “acting on behalf of or at the direction of a designated individual or entity, or acting on behalf of or at the direction of an entity owned or controlled by a designated individual or entity”, as reaffirmed by paragraph 2 of resolution 2688 (2023). As a leader of ADF (CDe.001), MOHAMED ALI NKALUBO is involved in planning, promulgating and supporting the armed group’s activities. He has effective command and control over the group’s combatants.

Listed pursuant to paragraphs 7 (b), 7 (d), 7 (e), and 7 (h) of resolution 2293 (2016) as “being political and military leaders of foreign armed groups operating in the DRC who impede the disarmament and the voluntary repatriation or resettlement of combatants belonging to those groups; “recruiting or using children in armed conflict in the DRC in violation of applicable international law; “planning, directing, committing acts in the DRC that constitute human rights violations or abuses or violations of international humanitarian law, as applicable, including those acts involving the targeting of civilians, including killing and maiming, rape and other sexual violence, abduction, forced displacement, and attacks on schools and hospitals”; and “acting on behalf of or at the direction of a designated individual or entity, or acting on behalf of or at the direction of an entity owned or controlled by a designated individual or entity”, as reaffirmed by paragraph 2 of resolution 2688 (2023). As a leader of ADF (CDe.001), MOHAMED ALI NKALUBO is involved in planning, promulgating and supporting the armed group’s activities. He has effective command and control over the group’s combatants.