Doctor Achaye (real name Ali Achaye) is a former Ugandan commander of
Lord's Resistance Army.
Life
He was born in
Pabbo
Pabbo, sometimes spelled as Pabo, is a municipality in Amuru District of the Northern Region of Uganda.
Location
Pabbo is on the Gulu-Nimule Road, the main highway (A-104) between Gulu and the border with Southern Sudan at Nimule. Pabbo is appr ...
locality in Uganda, possibly from Dog Olinga. He was part of
Joseph Kony's security detail for a long time. He was abducted in 1998 in Pabbo centre while in P2 at Agole primary school.
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27 July 2023
In 2013 he led around 50 fighters.
In late 2014, a group of Ugandan LRA officers, including
Dominic Ongwen, began plotting to defect from the LRA. In November 2014, Achaye Doctor, a longtime LRA officer and one of Ongwen's co-conspirators, organized the escape of nine Ugandan fighters, while Ongwen remained in the Kony's group. Achaye's group established a camp in a remote forest region of
Bas-Uélé province in northern Democratic Republic of Congo where he operated a splinter group. In 2016 he moved to the Central African Republic where they abducted dozens of civilians.
In early 2021 local authorities initiated trust building measures with Achaye group such as allowing armed group's children to attend local school and fighters to buy at markets. In February 2022 he began formal demobilization talks with authorities and in mid-April and turned in some of group's weapons.
On 22 July 2023 he returned to Uganda together with 13 other LRA fighters.
Uganda receives 14 former LRA rebel fighters repatriated from CAR
23 July 2023
Personal life
He has two wives, however in 2023 he returned to Uganda with only one wife and seven children, while the other one was left in the Central African Republic just day after delivering.
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Lord's Resistance Army rebels
African warlords
People of the Central African Republic Civil War
1990s births
Living people