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

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

Activities

*In 1998, the USF attacked

Tororo Tororo is a town in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Tororo District. History Tororo was garrisoned by the Uganda Army's Air and Sea Battalion during the Uganda–Tanzania War ( ...

Prison and abducted several inmates. *In 1999, David Nyekorach-Matsanga, a senior official of the

Lord's Resistance Army The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also known as the Lord's Resistance Movement, is a rebel group and heterodox Christian group which operates in northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Co ...

, 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 Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and retired senior military officer who has been the 9th and current President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. Museveni spearheaded rebellions with aid of then ...

with his own rebel group: the USF.Ugandan rebel official resigns
''BBC News''. April 5, 1999.

Sources

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State. February 2000*

References

Paramilitary organisations based in Uganda Defunct organizations designated as terrorist in Africa {{uganda-stub