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Mar
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Islamist militants kill at least 35 in east Congo village, army says

Islamist militants kill at least 35 in east Congo village, army says

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI ISLAMIST militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel activity, an army spokesperson said. The assailants were members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Anthony Mualushayi said, referring to a Ugandan armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and conducts frequent raids on villages. The attack targeted the village of Mukondi, around 30 km (20 miles) south of the city of Beni in North Kivu province, an area plagued with rebel activity…
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Jan
17
2023
By The African Mirror
Death toll rises to 14 in Congo church attack claimed by Islamic State

Death toll rises to 14 in Congo church attack claimed by Islamic State

NEWS
THE death toll from a church bombing in the east Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 14, an army spokesman said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern city of Kasindi, near the border with Uganda. Local army spokesman Anthony Mwalushayi told Reuters the number of casualties had increased to 14 deaths and 63 wounded, from five and 15, respectively, announced on Sunday. The army blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan militant group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2019. The militant group could not…
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Apr
05
2022
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill 21 civilians in eastern Congo

Suspected Islamists kill 21 civilians in eastern Congo

NEWS
SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed at least 21 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local human rights group and a witness said. Fighters believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked the village of Masambo on Sunday night, said Ricardo Rupande, president of the group, the Ruenzori Sector Civil Society. The village is about 40 km (25 miles) east of the city of Beni in the Ruenzori district. The ADF is a Ugandan militia that has been active in eastern Congo since the 1990s. It has been blamed for thousands…
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Sep
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Congo arrests Middle Eastern national for links to Islamist militia

Congo arrests Middle Eastern national for links to Islamist militia

NEWS
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo has arrested a Middle Eastern national for alleged ties to an Islamist militia in the east of DRC, potentially the first time a non-African fighter has been found working with the group. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist armed group led by Ugandans, has been blamed for dozens of massacres with hatchets and firearms in the last three years, mostly in remote villages. In 2019 the ADF's leadership pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS), which has in turn claimed dozens of the ADF's attacks, although United Nations experts say they have not found conclusive evidence…
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Jul
25
2021
By The African Mirror
16 killed in road ambush in DRC

16 killed in road ambush in DRC

NEWS
AT least 16 people, including six women and two children, have been killed in a suspected Islamist militant attack on a remote road in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the director of a local hospital said. The attack took place on a road near the town of Oicha, around 390 km (242 miles) north of the eastern provincial capital of Goma. Nine others were injured, with three, including a baby, in critical condition, according to hospital staff. Survivors blamed the assault on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist militant group that claims links to Islamic State. They…
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Jun
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Double blasts: DRC blames Islamist militia

Double blasts: DRC blames Islamist militia

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo's army said an Islamist militia which claims links to Islamic State (IS) was responsible for two blasts in the eastern city of Beni, as the mayor closed local schools, churches and markets in a tightening of security. The army said Sunday's attacks bore the signature of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which has used improvised explosive devices in the past. No one was killed in the two incidents apart from the suspected bomber in the second blast, after an explosive device he was carrying went off at a busy intersection. Another explosive device…
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Jun
17
2021
By The African Mirror
No evidence of Islamic State control over militia

No evidence of Islamic State control over militia

NEWS
UNITED Nations experts say they had been unable to find evidence of direct support by Islamic State for an Islamist militia in eastern Congo, which was blacklisted in March by Washington as a terrorist group. Experts on Central Africa have been debating whether the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), blamed for increasing violence over the past two years in eastern Congo, has genuine links with the Islamic State group based in the Middle East, sometimes known as ISIS or ISIL. The ADF has publicly aligned itself with Islamic State, which in turn has claimed responsibility for some of its attacks. The…
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Jun
01
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 55 killed in DRC attacks – UN

At least 55 killed in DRC attacks – UN

NEWS
AT least 55 people were killed overnight in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, the United Nations has revealed, in potentially the worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years. The army and a local civil rights group blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist armed group, for raiding the village of Tchabi and a camp for displaced people near Boga, another village. Both are close to the border of Uganda. Houses were burned and civilians abducted, the U.N. office for humanitarian affairs said in a statement. Albert Basegu, the head of a…
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May
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Female peacekeeper killed in DRC

Female peacekeeper killed in DRC

NEWS
A female peacekeeper from Malawi was killed in an attack by an Islamist militia in eastern Congo's North Kivu province yesterday, the U.N. and the Malawian government said. A local civil rights group said separately that fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist armed group with Ugandan origins, attacked the village of Kilia, around 18km southeast of Beni in the province, killing at least five people. It was not clear if that figure included the peacekeeper. "A peacekeeper was killed in an attack by alleged ADF in the Beni region," said MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, which has…
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Feb
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill 16 in eastern DRC

Suspected Islamists kill 16 in eastern DRC

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE  SUSPECTED Islamists killed three soldiers and 13 civilians and burnt down a church in a raid on a village in Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern Ituri province, the army and a rights group said yesterday. The attackers opened fire when they entered the village of Ndalya, about 100 km south of the city of Bunia, said Christophe Munyanderu, coordinator of the group Convention for the Respect of Human Rights. An initial assessment showed that 13 civilians had been killed, Munyanderu said. The attackers also burned down a Catholic church, he said. "For the moment our troops are…
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