Djugu territory | |
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 View of Lake Albert from Djugu territory | |
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| Coordinates: 1°55′58.8″N30°28′58.8″E / 1.933000°N 30.483000°E | |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (CAT) |
Djugu territory (French : Territoire de Djugu) is a district of Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] Its capital is also named Djugu.
Armed conflict first appeared in Djugu in December 2017, resulting in the displacement of 20,000 people. [2] [3] [4] Since then 4,000 people have been killed by various armed organizations, including CODECO. [5]
In 2021, during an ongoing insurgency by Islamist rebels, Djugu fell into a humanitarian crisis. Since November 2021, rebels have attacked several separate IDP sites, including Drodro, a camp for internally displaced people, [6] [7] resulting in heavy casualties. At least 58 civilians were killed since October. [8] On 2 February 2022, a CODECO attack killed over 60 people. A few weeks later, CODECO slew 18 people in the village of Banyali Kilo. [9]
600,000 people living in Djugu territory are IDPs, 85,000 of whom became displaced in 2021. [8]
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The earliest known human settlements in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated back to the Middle Stone Age, approximately 90,000 years ago. The first real states, such as the Kongo, the Lunda, the Luba and Kuba, appeared south of the equatorial forest on the savannah from the 14th century onwards.
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or MONUSCO, an acronym based on its French name Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en République démocratique du Congo, is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which was established by the United Nations Security Council in resolutions 1279 (1999) and 1291 (2000) to monitor the peace process of the Second Congo War, though much of its focus subsequently turned to the Ituri conflict, the Kivu conflict and the Dongo conflict. The mission was known as the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo or MONUC, an acronym of its French name Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République démocratique du Congo, until 2010.
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The Ituri conflict is an ongoing conflict between the agriculturalist Lendu and pastoralist Hema ethnic groups in the Ituri region of the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While the two groups had fought since as early as 1972, the name 'Ituri conflict' refers to the period of intense violence between 1999 and 2003. Armed conflict continues to the present day.
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The Popular Front for Justice in the Congo is an armed group operating in the south of Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where it has participated in the Ituri conflict. It formed in September 2008 from a splintering of the Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) and coalescing of other armed actors, including combatants from the Nationalist and Integrationist Front, who had resisted national disarmament campaigns. The group has expressed opposition to a 2006 attempt to resolve the Ituri conflict, which granted amnesty to former participants in the conflict. In 2011, the group was estimated to have no more than 100 members. Whereas the FRPI was closely linked to the Ngiti ethnolinguistic group, the FPJC incorporated members of more varied ethnic backgrounds.
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Events in the year 2021 in the Republic of the Congo.
Drodro is a refugee camp in Djugu territory, located in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
On 2 February 2022, over 60 civilians from the Hema ethnic group were killed in a massacre in Djugu territory, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Events of the year 2022 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Events of the year 2023 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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