Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:38 By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda linked rebels have attacked a town in eastern Congo, forcing thousands of refugees flee across the border into Uganda for safety, Uganda's Red Cross and military said on Friday. The Uganda Red Cross Society said 18,450 Congolese refugees crossed into the east African country after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) hit the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Kamangu on Thursday. Uganda is worried that an unchecked build up of the capacity of the ADF, which was active against Kampala in the 1990s, could pose a major threat to its Lake Albert region where crude reserves estimated at 3.5 billion...
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