At least 46 people were killed in a new attack attributed to the ADF rebels, affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities reported.
“The provisional balance is 38 people dead in Mukondi and eight in Mausa,” two villages in Beni territory, in North Kivu province, Kalunga Meso, head of a local group (group of villages), told AFP.
This figure was confirmed by Arsene Mumbere, president of the local civil society, who added that the attackers “entered the Mukondi village without making a sound” and killed most of the victims “with bladed weapons”.
The ADF, a mostly Muslim rebel group of Ugandan origin, has operated since the mid-1990s in eastern DRC, where it is accused of killing thousands of civilians.
The Islamic State jihadist group presents them as its affiliate in central Africa.
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