July 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least six civilians were killed on Sunday in an attack carried out by alleged members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, linked to the Islamic State jihadist group, in Ituri province, located in the east of the African country.
The coordinator of the Convention for the Respect of Human Rights (CRDH), Christoph Munyaanderu, has indicated that the assailants broke into the town of Kayera, where “they set fire to two Protestant temples before fleeing into nature”.
Likewise, the head of Bahema-Boga, Katho Kaboya II, has detailed that “the enemy attacked the county of Bahema-Mitego, a neighbor of Bahema-Boga” and caused “human and material damage”, according to the Congolese news portal 7sur7.
The ADF, a Ugandan group created in the 1990s, especially active in eastern DRC and accused of the killing of hundreds of civilians in this area of the country, could be trying to operate again in Uganda, from where it withdrew in 2003. after a series of military operations that drastically reduced its ability to carry out attacks in the country.
The ADF suffered a split in 2019 after Musa Baluku — sanctioned by the United Nations and the United States — swore allegiance to the jihadist group Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA), under whose banner he has been acting ever since. The DRC and Uganda signed a defense agreement in December to carry out joint operations in eastern DRC.
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