Tag: North Kivu

UPDATE: Attack by suspected militants leaves 7 dead in DRC

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UPDATE: Attack by suspected militants leaves 7 dead in DRC
UPDATE (5 August): Seven people have lost their lives following an attack by suspected Ugandan Islamist rebels from the ADF – in Oicha, in DRC’s troubled eastern North-Kivu province. The 30 July attack took place at about 5.30pm, local sources told World Watch Monitor; the Congolese army, supported by UN . . . Read More

NGOs appeal to Congo’s President to stop ‘massacre’

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NGOs appeal to Congo's President to stop 'massacre'
Local civil society organisations have written to Congolese President Joseph Kabila to denounce the ongoing killings of people in eastern DR Congo, particularly in Beni and Lubero (North Kivu Province). They say the violence has so far claimed 1,116 lives between October 2014 and May 2016. That’s an average of . . . Read More

DR Congo death toll nears 50 after second attack

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DR Congo death toll nears 50 after second attack
At least a further nine people have been killed in another attack by suspected Islamist militants in the eastern extremes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bringing the total killed in the past week to nearly 50. World Watch Monitor reported last week that between 20 and 40 villagers . . . Read More

DR Congo – Christians killed, as thousands flee continuing Islamist violence

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DR Congo - Christians killed, as thousands flee continuing Islamist violence
Islamist militants are suspected to have killed between 20 and 40 villagers in the eastern extremes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to news reports and a World Watch Monitor source. Attackers carried machetes and axes into a village in North Kivu province, in eastern DRC, late in . . . Read More

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