...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...
for more than three decades, has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
figures.
The latest violence saw six Congolese soldiers maimed in festivities with the forces of Evil following the ambush near the town of Mbau, army front man Antony Mwalushayi said on Sunday.
"Two ADF fell on the spot. In the evening after we secured the area, we discovered another eight," he said, referring to the holy warrior casualties.
Not long after the ambush, members of the same ADF group killed five civilians near Mbau, including three women, and took a few hostages, according to Mathe Esdras, head of the local youth council. Rooters could not independently verify his report.
The army launched a large offensive against the ADF late last year, sparking a
The insecurity has forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes and complicated Congo’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 2,200 people.
Several attacks attributed to the ADF have also been claimed by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
, although researchers and analysts say there is a lack of hard evidence linking the two groups.