Tag: Eringeti

DRC: grandmother forced to live in classroom after husband and friends murdered

August 22, 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, IDPs, North Kivu, Oicha

When violence struck her village in North Kivu again Marie lost her husband and her home, and now lives with other refugees in a small mud class room in a school. (Photo: Open Doors International)

Marie, a 73-year-old Congolese woman, had lived in a war zone for two decades when rebels attacked her village in North Kivu province again, killing her husband and causing her to flee with her family to find shelter in a school. She thinks it was probably a year ago when . . . Read More

UN report highlights Islamists’ role in DRC violence

January 13, 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, Islamic extremism, North Kivu, Sharia, UN

Over the Christmas weekend, more than 40 people were killed in the city of Beni and neighbouring communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Now a new report by the UN Panel of Experts on the DRC sheds new light on the presence of Islamist militants, which has caused . . . Read More

DRC: church deacon released after demonstration

November 23, 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, Kidnapping, North Kivu

A kidnapped church deacon has been released in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following demonstrations in the village where he works as a hospital apprentice. Godefroid Paluku was kidnapped on 18 November on the Kiwanja-Ishasha road in the Rutshuru territory of the eastern North Kivu province. He was on . . . Read More

DRC pastor – ‘We don’t understand why this is happening to us’

August 15, 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, IDPs, Joseph Kabila, North Kivu, Oicha, Uganda

A relatively unknown militant group has intensified attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), raising fears of the emergence of a new jihadist organisation in central Africa. For years now, one of various rebel groups operating there, the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces-National Association for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU), . . . Read More

DR Congo death toll nears 50 after second attack

May 11, 2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Bukavu, Cadeau, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, Islamic extremism, North Kivu

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 – Islamist militias threaten central Africa too

October 12, 2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Africa, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Beni, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eringeti, Islamic extremism, Oicha, Sharia

In Africa, it isn’t only in the west that Islamist insurgencies are posing a security threat. While attention has been focused on Nigeria’s radical Islamist group Boko Haram (whose attacks have spread to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger), a relatively unknown militant group has intensified attacks in the Democratic Republic . . . Read More

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