{"id":5670,"date":"2026-01-05T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/5670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:20:21","slug":"is-linked-fighters-kill-14-in-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/5670\/","title":{"rendered":"IS-linked fighters kill 14 in DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo&#8217;s Goma in major escalation. Photo: Reuters (file)   <\/p>\n<p>                                        BENI (DR CONGO): <\/p>\n<p>A militia linked to the Islamic State group staged a simultaneous attack on three villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 14 people, the military and local sources said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) carried out the attacks overnight within a seven-kilometre radius (4.3 miles) in the northwest of North Kivu province.<\/p>\n<p>The three villages were attacked simultaneously in an &#8220;ADF incursion,&#8221; said local leader Macaire Sivikunula.<\/p>\n<p>Villagers panicked as gunfire rang out between 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm, he said, adding that 15 people were killed and 13 houses burned.<\/p>\n<p>Residents who spoke with AFP confirmed the deadly attack. The Congolese army said two of its soldiers were killed. &#8220;There was an incursion by ADF terrorists in the Bapera sector&#8230; the death toll is 14, including 12 civilians and two soldiers,&#8221; Lieutenant Marc Elongo, the army spokesperson in the region, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The ADF, originally composed of former Ugandan rebels, has been entrenched in northeastern DRC since the mid-1990s, and has killed thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":". Rwandan-backed rebels enter Congo&#8217;s Goma in major escalation. Photo: Reuters (file) BENI (DR CONGO): A militia linked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[3300,153,929],"class_list":{"0":"post-5670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-latest","9":"tag-uganda","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}