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DR Congo: UNHCR reports alarming increase in insurgency
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KINSHASA, 20 March, 2021 (TON): On Friday, the UN said following the surge of attacks by the ADF militia, nearly 200 individuals killed and 40,000 displaced in the Northeast. DR Congo.
UNHCR reported alarming increase in the insurgent attacks by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) operating since 1995 in DRC.
UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch said, ADF have killed nearly 200 people, injured dozens of others, and displaced an estimated 40,000 people in DRC's Beni Territory in North Kivu province as well as nearby villages in Ituri province."
"In less than three months, the ADF has allegedly raided 25 villages, set fire to dozens of houses and kidnapped over 70 people," it added.
The ADF has the reputation of being the bloodiest of the 122 militias that plague the eastern DRC. It killed an estimated 465 people in 2020.
However, many experts are of the view that the massacres have become more frequent since the army launched an offensive in October 2019, forcing the ADF to break up into smaller, highly mobile units,
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