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Published: 10 Apr 2021 06:44 PM BdST
Updated: 10 Apr 2021 06:44 PM BdST FILE PHOTO: Congolese men push their makeshift bicycle past peacekeepers from India serving, in the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), as they ride on patrol in the town of Kiwanja, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 19, 2018. REUTERS
At least two people were killed during violent protests on Friday against the United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said. );
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Troops attached to the UN mission, known as MONUSCO, killed one person during a protest in the rural area of Oicha, its mayor Nicolas Kikuku told Reuters.
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An Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldier rests next to a road after Islamist rebel group called the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked area around Mukoko village, North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, on 11 December, 2018.
Assailants killed a dozen people in two overnight attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army, a witness and a local rights group said on Wednesday, blaming an Islamist militia.
The army said fighters launched their assault on the towns of Oicha and Kisima in North Kivu Province.
President Felix Tshisekedi has said he wants to end decades of unrest in the mineral-rich east, but killings there have more than doubled in the last year, according to the United Nations.
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At least 22 civilians killed in rebel attack in eastern DRC
January 8, 2021
At least 22 civilians have been killed in a rebel attack on a village in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to local officials.
The violence in Mwenda village of the Beni territory was perpetrated by the Ugandan rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Donat Kibwana, the administrator of the Beni territory, told Anadolu news agency.
“ADF rebels attacked the village of Mwenda on Monday about 19:00 GMT, killing 22 civilians with machetes,” Kibwana said, adding the death toll is provisional.
Local leaders Ruwenzori Bozy Sindiwako and Iteni Muvunga Kimwele told the DPA news agency by telephone on Tuesday the rebels used machetes and bladed weapons to carry out the massacre and systematically loot the settlement.
Ugandan rebel group blamed for deaths of 22 people in DRC
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CAPE TOWN - More than 20 civilians have been killed in an attack on a village in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials said.
The violence that claimed 22 lives in Mwenda village of the Beni territory was perpetrated by the Ugandan rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Donat Kibwana, the administrator of the Beni territory, told Anadolu news agency.
“ADF rebels attacked the village of Mwenda on Monday, killing 22 civilians with machetes,” Kibwana said, adding the death toll was provisional.
The ADF is a rebel group in Uganda and the DRC, considered a terrorist organisation by the Ugandan government. It was originally based in western Uganda but has expanded into the neighbouring DRC.