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Africa Subsaharan

Suspected militants kill at least 14 in Congo night raid

2023-11-27

25/11/2023
[Garowe] Suspected forces of Evil killed at least 14 people in an attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
on Thursday night, a local official, a civil society leader, and a survivor said on Friday.

The assailants are believed to be rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces

...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....
(ADF), a Ugandan gang based in east Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and frequently raids villages, sometimes with machetes and hatchets.

The forces of Evil attacked the village of Makodu at night when locals were sleeping in their homes.

Civil society leader Marcel Nzanzu and survivor Dieudonné Kakule told Rooters that nobody was expecting it.

The mayor of Oicha, the town located in eastern North Kivu province, told Rooters that ADF rebels killed civilians with knives and firearms before fleeing.

"For the time being, calm has returned to the area, even if the residents are afraid," said Mayor Nicolas Kikuku, adding that some bodies have arrived at Oicha's morgue.

Nzanzu said that after the attack some residents headed for areas considered safe.

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