Democratic Republic of Congo
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May- 2020 -25 MayAfrica
Nine Killed in Eastern DR Congo Attack
Nine civilians were killed on Sunday in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni in another attack blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, according to local sources. The attackers fled after a gunfight with army troops, according to Anthony Mualushayi, a regional army spokesman. The fighters “burned down some houses” and people have fled, said Donat Kibwana, the region’s administrator, adding that there were “some wounded on the military side.” Local official Bozi Sindiwako told AFP that two women and seven men were killed. The ADF is accused of killing more than 400 civilians in six months in retaliation for a military offensive launched in October against their bases. More than 1,000 civilians have died in attacks blamed on the ADF in the Beni region since October 2014. They often target farmers returning from the fields or at home in their villages at night. The mainly Muslim movement originated in neighboring Uganda, opposed to the rule of President Yoweri Museveni. In 1995 they crossed the border into DR Congo, which became its base of operations. “Barbaric acts” are being committed by militiamen in Beni and elsewhere in eastern DR Congo, the government said at a cabinet meeting on Friday. …
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22 MayAfrica
Coronavirus Fails to Halt Conflict in DR Congo’s Powder-Keg East
Coronavirus has swiftly gained status as the world’s No. 1 threat but in eastern DR Congo, one of Africa’s most volatile regions, militia killings and ethnic violence are an older and — for now — far greater source of dread. Some 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) distant from the capital Kinshasa, this beautiful region bordering Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi has been a notorious flashpoint since the Congo Wars of the 1990s. “The COVID-19 crisis must not make us forget the atrocities which are taking place in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo,” 2018 Nobel peace laureate Denis Mukwege said on Tuesday. In the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, “civilians are being massacred,” he said. “In South Kivu, Rwandan and Burundian armies are battling armed groups in the high plateaus of Minembwe, destroying everything in their wake,” Mukwege said. “And in Tanganyika, the Zambians who had until now had good neighborly relations with DR Congo… recently invaded our territory.” Mukwege co-won the coveted prize for his treatment in helping women raped by armed rebels in South Kivu. The Kivu Security Tracker, an NGO which documents bloodshed in the two Kivu provinces, said March was one of the least violent months it …
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Apr- 2020 -7 AprilAfrica
DR Congo: Attack blamed on ADF kills 6 near Beni
Five men and a child were killed in an attack blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces militia near the DR Congo city of Beni, cut off because of the coronavirus pandemic
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Feb- 2020 -13 FebruaryAfrica
DR Congo forces captured 40 ADF fighters near Makeke, UN says
The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo captured 40 Allied Democratic Forces fighters in a joint operation with the UN near Makeke
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Jan- 2020 -22 JanuaryAfrica
DR Congo civilians killed near Beni in attack blamed on ADF
Six civilians were killed in an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo blamed on the ADF, the first assault this year in an area that has suffered multiple massacres
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Dec- 2019 -16 DecemberAfrica
ADF blamed for weekend DR Congo attacks that killed 32
At least 32 people were killed in eastern DR Congo over the weekend, where ADF attacks on civilians have sparked protests against UN peacekeepers
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8 DecemberAfrica
UN DR Congo peacekeeping force repels attack on Biakato base
UN peacekeeping forces have managed to thwart an attempted attack on one of their bases in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO said
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Nov- 2019 -27 NovemberAfrica
UN investigating whether DR Congo peacekeeper killed protester in Beni
The UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo said it was launching a probe after gaining evidence that one of its troops had killed a protester
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25 NovemberAfrica
DR Congo protesters storm MONUSCO camp, accuse peacekeepers of inaction after Beni attacks
Eight DR Congo civilians died in a fresh militant attack in Beni and angry residents partly burnt the town hall and accused MONUSCO of inaction
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20 NovemberAfrica
At least 10 civilians killed by ADF rebels as DR Congo army offensive continues
Between 10 and 21 civilians were killed in attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo, where the army is conducting an offensive against armed groups
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