At least 20 civilians were killed on Sunday night in Ituri, in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a new massacre attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), experts and the local Red Cross said.
The army accuses the ADF group, presented by the Islamic State as its branch in Central Africa, of being responsible for this "machete" massacre in the east of the country
By Paul Moraga Msunguti (DRC), May 12 (EFE).- In Kalehe, a region of fertile hills dotted with villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the gunfire was finally silenced last year after more than two decades of war. But while the bullets have stopped flying, malnutrition and malaria have taken over as the …
North Kivu and Ituri have been under a state of siege since May 6 2021, a measure that has given full powers to army and police officers to run the administration and wage war against the more than 100 armed groups that have plagued eastern Congo for more than a quarter century.