March 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced this Sunday the death of about twenty militiamen of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) during an operation in Ruwenzori, in the North Kivu province, in the northeast of the country.
The operation took place along the Nzelube-Lusilubi river basin last Saturday, as confirmed by the military spokesman for sector 1 Great North, Captain Antony Mualushahi, in a statement collected by the Congolese portal 7sur7.
Some surviving militiamen have fled, as they have done on so many occasions in clashes like this one, to the Virunga National Park, where the military has launched a search and capture operation.
The ADF, created in Uganda in the 1990s, suffered a split in 2019 after a prominent faction swore allegiance to the jihadist group Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA), under whose banner it has operated since then, especially in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.
It must be remembered that the United Nations has accused the group of executing around 1,200 civilians during 2021, according to a report published in January last year by the UN Joint Office for Human Rights in the DRC.
