A new ADF attack leaves more than twenty dead in North Kivu (DRC)

10 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

At least 25 people have been killed during a new assault by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militias in the Congolese province of North Kivu, in the northeast of the country, which took place over the weekend.

According to the mayor of Oicha, Nicolas Kikuku, the ADF killed several civilians, despite the fact that “the balance is controversial”, according to the Congolese media ‘7sur7’.

Security and civil society sources have indicated that there are bodies at the scene, while others have been transferred to the local morgue, where 22 bodies would have arrived.

For his part, the president of civil society in the Beni Mbau sector, Georges Kivaya, has estimated the provisional balance at least 25 deaths and numerous material damages. In addition, they have denounced several missing civilians.

The area, where Mai Mai rebels also operate, is a recurring scene of violent actions. In the case of the ADF – a group that the United Nations accuses of killing more than 1,200 civilians in a massacre in 2021 – it is an Islamist organization of Ugandan origin that in 2019 swore allegiance to the terrorist organization State Islamic in Central Africa (ISCA), to which he would continue to be linked to this day.