The Congolese Army estimates that almost 1,000 ADF militants have been killed during the state of emergency in Beni

June 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) estimate that almost a thousand combatants of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), one of the bloodiest militias in the country, have died since the beginning, in May 2021, of the state of exception in the territory of Beni, in the northeastern province of North Kivu.

The ADF, loyal to the jihadist group Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA) and accused by the United Nations of the murders of more than 1,200 civilians in 2021, also operate in the neighboring province of Ituri, also subject to military control since that year. to facilitate the fight against the armed organization.

In his assessment, the military spokesman, Captain Antony Mualushayi, has also reported the arrests of an undetermined number of militia “leaders” — among them Jordanians, Pakistanis, Kenyans or Afghans — and a total of 702 “collaborators” of the militias, among them “heads of local towns and neighborhoods”.

It so happens that this balance, collected this weekend by the 7sur7 portal, takes place in the midst of a rebound in the group’s activities in the Ruwenzori mountains, where the ADF executed 14 civilians last Friday in the city of Bukokoma, parallel to another wave of ADF assaults in neighboring Ituri province, which left around 20 dead.