At least 58 people have been killed by militants in two attacks in DRC's Ituri province rovince, with 17 others missing and presumed abducted
In this photograph taken on March 13, 2020, Moroccan soldiers from the UN mission in DRC ride in a vehicle as they patrol in the violence-torn Djugu territory, Ituri province, eastern DRC.
Large numbers of the population have fled following the attacks in Irumu, a territory in the province of Ituri, provincial interior minister Adjio Gidi told AFP on Thursday.He blamed the Allied Democratic Forces , which originated in the 1990s as a Ugandan Muslim rebel group and has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians since DR Congo's armed forces launched a crackdown against them last November.
The group has been blamed for more than 1,000 civilian deaths in the Beni region of North Kivu province since 2014. A senior delegation from the central government was scheduled to arrive in Ituri on Friday to discuss the province's security problems.
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