In the month of Sept. 2021 alone, armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 117 civilians including 94 men, 19 women, and four children. These figures are contained in the most recent monthly report of the United Nations Joint Bureau for Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo published on […]
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Eleven civilians and three soldiers were killed in an attack by rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Ituri, Northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The attack happened on Sunday. Four of the assailants were also killed. According to Jules Ngongo, the army spokesperson in Ituri, the ADF combatants entered the locality of […]
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Fourteen fighters of the rebel Allied Defence Forces (ADF) were killed on Friday in fighting between the rebel forces and soldiers of the Democratic Republic of Congo army in the Semuliki valley, precisely in Kifrere, within the Ruwenzori sector in Beni, North Kivu territory. According to the commander of the Operation Sokola 1 of the […]
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Several persons were reported dead following an attack by unidentified gunmen on Friday, on Ndosho quarter in the city of Goma, North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to local sources, the attack took place around 19 hours when the yet to be identified gunmen opened fire at point-blank range on passersby killing […]
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Combatants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on Monday, November 9, attacked two villages close to Mamove in the Beni territory, North Kivu and killed at least 11 (eleven) persons, local civil society sources said. The first attack took place in the village of Mbugimayi, 10km to the north of Mamove. According to the sources, […]
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Over 1,000 prisoners escaped from Kangbayi Central Prison in Beni, North Kivu, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 following an attack on the facility by combatants of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). According to the Mayor of Beni, Modeste Bakwanamaha, the rebels launched two simultaneous attacks – one against the prison and the other against […]
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Over 4,500 people have lost their lives to the lingering security crisis in Beni, a city located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Repeated attacks on the community started six years ago on October 2, 2014, and have been attributed to combatants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). While giving a breakdown […]
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Ten civilians were killed on Sunday evening in renewed violence by combatants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the locality of Mbau about 20km north of Beni, North Kivu Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to local civil society activists, the assailants carried out two simultaneous attacks on two quarters in Mbau, […]
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Fourteen women were last weekend abducted by militiamen of the Malaika terrorist group in the village of Matchapano, Kabambare territory in the south of Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Saidi Lumena, the Chief of Matchapano village, told the president of a local civil society outfit that the women were kidnapped on their way to […]
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Over one million people have been forced to flee their homes in the violence ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the start of 2020, the UN said in a statement on Tuesday. AFP news agency reported that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) voiced alarm at the increasing number of attacks […]
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