At least 11 people died In an attack carried out this Monday by Alleged members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)Against the town of Maziya, affiliated with ISIS, near the city of Mangina in Ituri province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The attack took place in the morning and the victims, who were farmers, were hacked to death. The bodies were transported to Mangina, according to interim mayor Kathemo Salamu Emmanuel, Congolese news portal Actualité reported.
All day long, Democratic Republic of Congo Armed Forces condemn 80 civilians applied 23 attacks by shooting or using a machete Throughout January, attacks attributed to this armed group took place in Beni territory in North Kivu, in the east of the country.
The ADF, a Ugandan group that operated primarily in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s and is accused of massacring hundreds of civilians in that part of the country, may be trying to return to operate in Uganda, from which it withdrew in 2003. Following a series of military operations that greatly reduced the ability to launch attacks in the country. The group suffered a split in 2019 after Musa Baluku, sanctioned by the United Nations and the United States, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA) jihadist group, under whose flag it has operated ever since. DRC and Uganda signed a defense agreement in December 2021 to conduct joint operations in eastern DRC.