The final report to the Security Council by the Group of Experts tasked with monitoring the arms embargo and other sanctions against armed rebel groups in DRC details their recruitment networks and sources of financing, including trade in minerals, timber, charcoal and cannabis and other cash crops.

Foreign armed groups active in eastern DRC include the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has its origins in Uganda and is active in DRC's north-eastern province of Orientale; Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), which are present in North and South Kivu; the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which also originates from Uganda and is active in the north-east of North Kivu; and Burundi's Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), which has a presence in southern areas of South Kivu. Unlike the others, the LRA sustains itself from pillaging, according to the report. http://reliefweb.int/node/467803 UN News Service