KINSHASA – At least 30 people were killed in a weekend attack in the restive northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and UN sources said yesterday.The jihadists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected to have carried out the attack in the Ituri area on Saturday, they said.Dieudonne Malangayi, acting chair of the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu, initially said 14 people died in the attack but told AFP yesterday that more bodies had since been discovered.“The civilians who went to look for the bodies of the victims found 16 others in the bush, which makes 30 civilians massacred,” said Malangayi.A UN source confirmed that at least 30 people had died in the attack.One civilian who helped look for bodies said the victims had mostly been attacked with machetes or shot.The ADF, which the United States has deemed a terrorist group, is considered the deadliest of scores of armed militias that roam the […]
AT LEAST 30 DEAD IN WEEKEND DR CONGO ATTACK

Congolese soldiers patrol the village of Mwenda, recently attacked by the armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), in Rwenzori Sector, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 23, 2021. - Since December 2020, several dozen deadly attacks have taken place at the foot of the Rwenzori Mountains and in surrounding villages. Since October 2019 and the launch of "large-scale" military operations in Beni Territory, the armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), originally from Uganda and claiming to be a branch of the Islamic State organization, has increased its deadly attacks and killed over 1,200 people. In March 2021, the U.S. State Department listed the ADF as an international terrorist organization affiliated with ISIS, and designated it as ISIS-DRC. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP)
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