June 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least eight people have been killed in attacks carried out in recent days by alleged members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), linked to the Islamic State jihadist group, against various towns in the province of North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. (DRC).
Civil society sources quoted by the Congolese news portal Actualité have indicated on Monday that the attacks have been carried out since Thursday in the surroundings of the city of Mamove, located near the border with the province of Ituri.
Thus, at least two people were hacked to death that day in the village of Beka-Mbeka, while two other civilians died in a second attack on Friday in a nearby town. The assailants also executed their victims with machetes.
On the other hand, four people were killed on Saturday in the town of Madele-Masiya when they were working in their fields. The president of the Mamove civil society, Kinos Katuho, has specified that they too died from stab wounds.
The ADF, a Ugandan group created in the 1990s that was especially active in the eastern DRC and accused of killing hundreds of civilians in this part of the country, suffered a split in 2019 after its leader swore allegiance to the jihadist group. Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA), under whose banner it has operated ever since.
