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AT LEAST 10 people were killed in an overnight raid on a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country’s armed forces confirmed on Tuesday.
Authorities in the east of the country said that fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist group which has expanded into the DRC from Uganda, carried out the attack on the village of Kabembeu.
“So far a provisional assessment is of about 10 people killed. It is attributed to the Islamist ADF fighters,” Beni territory deputy administrator Rosette Kavula said.
The horrors in the Congo have much in common with Gaza’s genocide, most notably the financial and military support of the US, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE