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2021-09-02 Africa Subsaharan
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Scores feared missing after ambush in eastern Congo
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Around 80 people are feared missing in the 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...
after armed rebels ambushed a convoy on Wednesday and set fire to 16 vehicles, a local parliamentarian said.
Jean-Paul Ngahangondi, a member of the Ituri province’s parliament, blamed the assault on the 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), an Islamist hard boy group accused of killing thousands of people in recent years.
The group could not be reached for comment.
Attacks by the ADF and dozens of other gangs operating in the region have continued unabated despite the government’s declaration of martial law in Ituri and neighboring North Kivu province at the beginning of May.
The installation of army generals as provincial governors was meant to quell a surge in violence that the military largely attributes to the ADF.
But the number of civilians killed in such attacks has further increased since then, according to the Kivu Security Tracker, which maps unrest in eastern Congo.
Commenting on Wednesday’s incident, government front man Patrick Muyaya told Rooters that ADF fighters had set fire to 14 cars and two minibusses in Ituri. He did not specify the number of people injured or missing.
Ngahangondi, the local politician, criticized what he said was the army’s slow response to the attack, a frequent complaint of local people.
"The army just waits for the rebels to kill the population and only then pursues them without any positive results," he said. "We need to see the army launch a good offense against the ADF instead of playing defense every time."
Eastern Congo’s borderlands with Uganda and Rwanda have been plagued by violence since regional wars around the turn of the century in which millions of people died, mostly from hunger and disease.
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....
has claimed dozens of killings blamed on the ADF, although U.N. experts say they have not found conclusive evidence that IS has control over ADF operations.
Suspected jihadists killed three people and torched up to 14 vehicles on Wednesday in the DR Congo's troubled northeastern Ituri province, a Western monitoring group and local civil society and security sources said.
The attack Wednesday morning occurred near the town of Ofai, the US-based Kivu Security Tracker (KST) said on Twitter, adding that the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) were suspected to have carried it out.
It said the toll of three dead was still provisional.
The convoy was under escort by UN peacekeepers in the MONUSCO force and the Congolese army, according to a local civil society official, Dieudonne Malangayi.
The dirt road connects Ituri to North Kivu province, and security forces mount escorts to protect convoys against rebel attacks.
"The ADF rebels cut the convoy in half," Malangayi told AFP, adding that the attack left three dead while 13 vehicles were torched.
AFP viewed a video showing several vehicles burning on the road, with dwellings nearby, as armed peacekeepers patrolled all around the site of the attack.
The ADF, historically a Ugandan Islamist group, have been accused of killing thousands of civilians in both Ituri and North Kivu.
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