The M23 first rose to prominence 10 years ago when its fighters seized Goma, the largest city in Congo’s east, which sits on the border with Rwanda. While the ADF is stepping up its violence in Ituri, attacks by the M23 rebels are surging in North Kivu province. Its ability to conduct regular massacres like this indicates the group is unlikely to be defeated anytime soon,” said Benjamin Hunter, Africa analyst for Verisk Maplecroft a risk assessment firm. “The ADF began expanding into Ituri in 2021 by exploiting existing inter-communal tensions and filling a security vacuum left by (the government in the distant capital) Kinshasa. Efforts by Congo’s army and Ugandan forces to push them back have yielded little results. The group, which originally operated in North Kivu province has spread to neighboring Ituri, where more then 144,000 people have been displaced between January and February, according to the UN. Since April last year, ADF attacks have killed at least 370 civilians and abducted several hundred more, including a significant number of children, according to the United Nations. Violence has been simmering in eastern Congo for decades where some 120 armed groups have been fighting over land, resources, power and some to defend their communities.Īttacks by rebel groups like ADF have increased recently.
The attacks occurred on Monday and Tuesday and were followed by subsequent fighting in other villages, he said.
“In this area there are several farmers who were killed and the death toll of 31 people is only provisional because there are many bodies, which have not yet been found,” he said. Men, women and children were killed by the Allied Democratic Forces - which has ties to the Islamic State group - between the Irumu and Mambasa territories in Congo’s Ituri province, Christophe Munyanderu, coordinator for the Convention for the Respect of Human Rights, told reporters. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - More than 30 people were killed in a string of attacks by extremist rebels in eastern Congo, a local human rights organization said.
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