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Feb
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill 10 villagers in eastern Congo

Suspected Islamists kill 10 villagers in eastern Congo

NEWS
ATTACKERS killed around 10 people in an overnight raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities and the army said yesterday, blaming fighters from a Ugandan Islamist armed group. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in eastern Congo since the 1990s, has committed a succession of brutal reprisal attacks against civilians since the army began an operation against it in late 2019. The group killed around 850 people last year, according to U.N. figures. "So far a provisional assessment is of about ten people killed. It is attributed to the Islamist ADF…
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Jan
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Militant killings more than doubled in Congo in 2020, UN says

Militant killings more than doubled in Congo in 2020, UN says

NEWS
KILLINGS by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo more than doubled last year, the United Nations has said, underlining spiralling violence in the country's east two years after Felix Tshisekedi became president. The U.N. Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) said militias executed at least 2,487 civilians in 2020, up from 1,029 the previous year. Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist armed group, were responsible for a third of the deaths, which included the killing of more than 200 women and 26 children in the restive provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, it said. "These…
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Jan
06
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 22 killed in eastern Congo village

At least 22 killed in eastern Congo village

NEWS
AT least 22 people were killed in an overnight raid on a village in a part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo plagued by Islamist rebel attacks, local authorities said on Tuesday. The militants struck late on Monday, killing residents of Mwenda village with machetes and guns, its civil society leader Jeremi Mbweki said. He blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group which has emerged as the most lethal militia in Congo's eastern borderlands and is suspected of hacking to death at least 17 people in a nearby village last week. "Now we live in total fear,…
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Jan
02
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 17 villagers hacked to death in eastern Congo

At least 17 villagers hacked to death in eastern Congo

NEWS
AT least 17 people were found hacked to death in a part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ravaged by attacks from Islamist militants, according to a local official. Donat Kibwana, the administrator of Beni territory, blamed the deaths near the town of Eringeti on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed Islamist group which has emerged in recent years as the most lethal of the militias in Congo's eastern borderlands. "Yesterday morning, Congolese army soldiers were on patrol when they found 17 bodies," Kibwana told Reuters. "The modus operandi allows us to say that tre responsible." More than…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Armed men kill at least a dozen civilians in northeast Congo

Armed men kill at least a dozen civilians in northeast Congo

NEWS
FISTON MAHAMBA ARMED men killed at least a dozen people and kidnapped several in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday night, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks they have blamed on Ugandan Islamist rebels. Violence attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in eastern Congo since the 1990s, has surged since the army began a counter-insurgency campaign against them late last year. Armed men attacked the city of Mbau in Beni territory, North Kivu province, near the Ugandan border, killing and kidnapping people and burning houses before fleeing into the bush,…
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Sep
11
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill at least 53 in eastern Congo

Suspected Islamists kill at least 53 in eastern Congo

NEWS
SUSPECTED militants killed at least 53 villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province this week, according to a local official. The authorities blamed the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in eastern Congo since the 1990s. The militia has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figures, despite repeated military campaigns aimed at destroying it. On Tuesday night into Wednesday, ADF fighters attacked the villages of Tsabi and Tondoli, around 120 km (75 miles) south of the city of Bunia, officials said.…
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Aug
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence – army, local leader

Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence – army, local leader

NEWS
TEN Islamist militants were killed after they ambushed an army convoy in eastern Congo, according to the military, while a community leader said five civilians were killed by members of the same rebel group soon after. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades, has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to United Nations figures. The latest violence saw six Congolese soldiers wounded in clashes with the militants following the ambush near the town of Mbau, army spokesman Antony Mwalushayi said…
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Aug
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamist militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

Suspected Islamist militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE  SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in a spate of attacks the United Nations says may constitute war crimes. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating in he fokkers cast in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figures. Militiamen tied up the victims in the villages of Kinziki-Matiba and Wikeno, 10 km east of the city of Oicha, before killing them in the attack…
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