VIDEO: Deadly violence in eastern DRC

After the defeat of the Tutsi-dominated M23 last year, the focus shifted to the Forces for Democratic Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a Hutu rebel faction that has destabilised the Eastern Congo for two decades.

At least 12 people have been killed in an overnight attack blamed on Ugandan rebels in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a witness and local NGO said Monday.

>The murders of more than 250 men, women and children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Beni Territory in recent weeks have widely been blamed on an insurgency of Ugandan origin known as the Alliance of Democratic Forces-NALU (ADF-NALU). But several armed groups and racketeering gangs are active in the area and the culprits of these killings have not been incontrovertibly identified.

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