Kobo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kobo/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 19 Feb 2017 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 Kobo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kobo/ 32 32 Mai Mai militia behead Hutus in DRC massacre https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/mai-mai-militia-behead-hutus-drc-massacre/ Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/02/mai-mai-militia-behead-hutus-drc-massacre/ An estimated 25 people, mostly Hutus, have been hacked to death with machetes by militiamen from in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They were reportedly beheaded by the attackers from the Nande ethnic grouping. Local officials and activists are reporting that there has been a massacre of Hutu civilians in the village of Kyaghala in the […]

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]]> An estimated 25 people, mostly Hutus, have been hacked to death with machetes by militiamen from in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

They were reportedly beheaded by the attackers from the Nande ethnic grouping.

Local officials and activists are reporting that there has been a massacre of Hutu civilians in the village of Kyaghala in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo .

The civilians were attacked, and many beheaded, by militiamen from the Mai-Mai Mazembe.

The Mai-Mai are a so-called self-defense militia composed of members of DRC’s Nande, Hunde and Kobo communities.

They stand in opposition to rivals from the Nyaturu group, which also represents ethnic Hutus.

The attack on Saturday morning will inflame the interethnic conflict in the region.

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