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Apr

2024

25 civilians killed in militia attack in eastern Congo

THE death toll from an attack in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province rose to 25, a local chief and civil society leader said after a government spokesman and a U.N. document confirmed the attack. The Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) group, one of many militias operating in the conflict-ridden east, carried out the killings in the village of Galayi, 70 km (45 miles) northwest of the city of Bunia, they said. Fifteen bodies were discovered on Sunday, in addition to 10 bodies recovered on Saturday, Banzala Danny, a local chief, and Vital…

Jan

2024

By The African Mirror

Around 20 civilians killed in Congo attack, army and rebels trade blame

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AROUND 20 civilians were killed in an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army and M23 rebels said, accusing each other of launching the assault. The deaths were the latest fallout from fighting between Congolese troops and M23, whose offensives have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and worsened the region's decades-long security and humanitarian crisis. Thursday's attack took place in the town of Mweso in Masisi territory, around 80 km (50 miles) from the city of Goma in North Kivu province, the two sides said. They gave different accounts of what happened. The…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Kenyan army to join police in fighting bandits, cattle rustlers in northwest

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KENYAN soldiers will join the police to fight "rampant incidents of banditry" across the arid northwest that have killed more than 100 civilians and 16 police officers over the past six months, officials said. President William Ruto, who came to power in last August's election, has promised to restore security to the drought-stricken borderlands with Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, where endemic cattle rustling has been aggravated by the proliferation of automatic weapons. Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said the situation in the northern Rift Valley Region constituted a national emergency and gave people in the area three days to surrender…

Apr

2022

By The African Mirror

Ukraine says civilians killed in Lviv, new Russia push seen in east

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OLEKSANDR KOZHUKHAR and PAVEL POLITYUK UKRAINE said a Russian missile attack killed seven people in Lviv, the first civilian victims in the western city, and reported signs that Russia had started its anticipated new offensive in the east. Maksym Kozytskyy, the governor of Lviv which lies 60 km (40 miles) from the Polish border, said preliminary reports suggested there were four strikes, three on warehouses that were not in use by the military and another on a car service station. "It was a barbaric strike at a service station, it's a completely civilian facility," he told a news conference. Andriy…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

Nigerian jet kills civilians in pursuit of militants

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NINE people were killed and 23 injured in a village in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State that was hit by an airstrike by the Nigerian air force, which is battling Islamist insurgents in the area, the state's emergency response agency has announced. The air force said earlier it may have killed and injured civilians while pursuing insurgents in Yobe and that it was investigating the incident. Earlier, an air force spokesman said a fighter jet responded to intelligence on suspicious movements of suspected insurgents from either the Boko Haram group or ISWAP on Wednesday and fired "some probing shots", killing and…