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Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack

Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack

AT least five people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected Islamist militant bomb attack during a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern Congolese city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, the military said. An army spokesman said the attack during a Sunday service was likely carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan militant group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. "Despite the security measures put in place, the first indications show that it is the ADF which is behind this bomb attack," Anthony Mualushay told Reuters by phone. The…
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Suspected Islamists kill 10 people in DRC

ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE and EMMA FARGE MEN armed with knives, machetes and pick-axes killed 10 people in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a witness and a local rights group said yesterday, blaming an Islamist militia. Killings by armed groups more than doubled last year, according to the United Nations. In late 2019 the Congo army began a campaign to eliminate the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan militia that has been operating in the vast country since the 1990s. The ADF has responded with a rash of retaliatory massacres of civilians. "We are…
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Suspected Islamists kill 16 in eastern DRC

Suspected Islamists kill 16 in eastern DRC

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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Suspected Islamists kill 10 villagers in eastern Congo

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…
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