Suspected Islamists kill 10 villagers in eastern Congo
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…