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2021-09-01 Africa Subsaharan
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11 children abducted by presumed Islamist militants in DR Congo
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[AlAhram] Eleven children aged nine to 17, including five girls, have been kidnapped by presumed Salafist tough guys in northeastern DR Congo, a local official told AFP on Tuesday.
The rebels, thought to be members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked Allied Democratic Forces
 ...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....
(ADF), kidnapped the group in a village in Ituri province on Sunday evening, according to Dieudonne Malangayi, acting chairman of the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu.
The rebels erupted into the Bundingili area where the village is located, and kidnapped "all the civilians who were there, men, women and kiddies," he told AFP by phone.
More than three kilometres (two miles) away in the bush, the holy warriors 'freed the men, women and some young children,' but kept the 11 other children.
"We don't know what happened" to them, said Malangayi, who is also a representative of civil society.
The ADF, historically a Ugandan Islamist group, have been accused of killing thousands of civilians in Ituri and neighbouring North Kivu province.
No fatalities occurred in the latest raid, but "according to our analysis and the testimony of the freed civilians, they kidnapped these children to train them to become fighters," Malangayi said.
Since May, the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri have been under a state of siege, replacing civilian authorities with army and coppers to fight gangs.
The ADF, which the United States has deemed a terrorist group, is considered the deadliest of scores of armed militias that roam the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
 ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo , which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
On August 18, a contingent of US special operations forces arrived in the area to help the Congolese army in their fight against the ADF, US and Congolese sources said at the time.
In a separate incident in eastern DR Congo, one person was killed and seven were maimed late Monday by "armed bandidos" in Karisimbi, a district in North Kivu province, local mayor Jean-Paul Elongi Wandikia told AFP.
The local hospital said it had admitted eight people with gunshot wounds, one of whom later died.
Karisimbi lies in the Goma area, which is notorious for murders and armed robbery. 
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