Dec. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least twelve people died in a new attack carried out by alleged members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia aligned with the Islamic State jihadist group, against several towns located in the province of Ituri, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (DRC).
The non-governmental organization Convention for Respect for Human Rights (CRDH) has indicated that the assailants broke into the villages of Apakolu, Abulembi and Mangina Pori, all located in the territory of Irumu, without the authorities having ruled on the matter. .
Thus, the coordinator of the NGO in this area of the country, Christophe Munyanderu, has criticized the inaction of the security forces and regretted that more than 45 people have been killed in Irumu in the last month, according to the Congolese radio station Radio Okapi.
The ADF, a Ugandan group created in the 1990s that was particularly active in the eastern DRC and accused of killing hundreds of civilians in this part of the country, may be trying to resume operations 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 group 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 it has operated since then. The increase in their attacks and the claim of an attack in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, led both countries to launch the aforementioned joint operations in the eastern DRC.
