Allied Democratic Froces Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/allied-democratic-froces/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Allied Democratic Froces Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/allied-democratic-froces/ 32 32 Islamic State launches its first attack in the DRC https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/islamic-state-launches-its-first-attack-in-the-drc/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/04/islamic-state-launches-its-first-attack-in-the-drc/ The terror group calling itself Islamic State claims to have made its first attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They say they killed three Congolese soldiers in Bovta, which is near the Ugandan border. ends intro Congolese military authorities, who confirm the deaths of two soldiers, are blaming the Islamist militia called Allied Democratic […]

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]]> The terror group calling itself Islamic State claims to have made its first attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

They say they killed three Congolese soldiers in Bovta, which is near the Ugandan border.

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Congolese military authorities, who confirm the deaths of two soldiers, are blaming the Islamist militia called Allied Democratic Forces for the attack.

President Felix Tshisekedi, visiting Washington earlier this month said ADF had been infiltrated by IS.

He’s committed the Congo to joining the international coalition against the group.

ADF is one of more than 100 armed groups active in the Eastern DRC.

At least a dozen are fighting near Beni which is the epicenter of the second most serious EBOLA outbreak in history.

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