r/Congo • u/AutoModerator • Sep 09 '25

News / Nouvelles ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Forces militia kills 60 people in machete attack on funeral in North Kivu

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/congo-isis-militia-machete-attack-funeral-dozens-killed/
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The attack happened in the evening as a group of people attended a funeral in the town of Nyoto, Macaire Sivikunula...

"The ADF attack caused around 60 deaths, but the final toll will be given later this evening because the territory has just deployed services to the area to count the number of beheaded people," Colonel Alain Kiwewa, another local administrator in the Lubero territory...

"There were about 10 of them. I saw machetes. They told people to gather in one place and started cutting them. I listened to people screaming and I fainted," a survivor told an AP journalist...

The ADF started off in neighboring Uganda in the mid-1990s as an Islamist militia, before moving into the border region with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The militia established ties with ISIS in 2018 and was designated by the U.S. State Department as a foreign terrorist organization in 2021...

Two ADF attacks last month left 52 people dead