Twelve people have been killed in three days by militia in Beni region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials have told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Allied Democratic Forces group attacked an army position in the village of Mwenda on Saturday night, killing eight people, local administrator Donat Kibwana is quoted by the news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four farmers were killed in their fields in the neighbouring village of Mbau on Friday, AFP quotes deputy administrator for the Beni territory Richard Kivanzanga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two Congolese soldiers were wounded in a clash with the ADF in Kpolowu village on Saturday, according to army spokesperson in Beni area Antony Mualushayi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ADF, a mainly Muslim movement that originated in Uganda in the 1990s, has been blamed for more than 1,000 civilian deaths in the Beni region of North Kivu province since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twelve people have been killed in three days by militia in Beni region in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials have told AFP. The Allied Democratic Forces group attacked an army position in the village of Mwenda on Saturday night, killing eight people, local administrator Donat Kibwana is quoted by the news agency. Four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":17349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[1273,483,31],"class_list":["post-17348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-adf","tag-drc","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n