The ADF are a Ugandan Islamist group who began an insurgency in 1996. It spread to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and intensified during the 2010s. Their attacks in North Kivu include a massacre in Beni in 2016.[6] During the late 2010s, the group began to affiliate with the Islamic State.[7] In 2020, Musa Baluku proclaimed that the ADF had ceased to exist and was succeeded by the Islamic State's Central Africa Province.[8] In North Kivu, during January 2023, the ADF carried out massacres in Kasindi[9][10], Makugwe[11] and Kirindera.[12]
In March 2023, nine people were killed and several others went missing following the armed attack carried out by ADF terrorists in the Nguli village in the Lubero territory, North Kivu.[13][14][15] In the same month, the rebels took civilians hostage in the village of Katiri in Isale Kasongwere Groupement, in the Beni territory, North Kivu.[16][17] Parenthetically, the insurgents also erected a stronghold in the Virunga National Park between the villages of Kavasewa and Karuruma.[18]
Attack
At 4:00 am on 12 February 2025, armed members of the Allied Democratic Forces entered the village of Mayba, in Lubero Territory, North Kivu, where they ordered residents to come out of their homes. They immediately took at least 20 civilians captive and left before returning at around 6:00 pm. Upon returning the ADF militants surrounded the village and rounded up an additional 50 civilians.[19][20]
The captives were taken to a Protestant CECA 20 church in Kasanga, a neighbouring village near Lubero in Lubero Territory, North Kivu, where they were tied up and executed by either hammers or machetes.[1][2][3] The bodies of the massacred were found on 14 February 2025 still in the church.[21]
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