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Mukondi massacre

During 8–9 March 2023, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) carried out a massacre in the village of Mukondi in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Background
The ADF is a Ugandan Islamist group who in 1996 began their insurgency, including a massacre in 1998 in Kabarole District in the Western Region, Uganda. They later spread to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing thousands of civilians, including a massacre in Beni in 2016. Since the late 2010s, the ADF are aligned with Islamic State. In North Kivu, in the northeast of the DRC, in January 2023, the ADF carried out massacres in Kasindi and Makugwe. ==Massacre==
Massacre
During the night of 8–9 March 2023, the ADF used machetes to carry out a massacre in Mukondi, a village in North Kivu. Locals claimed that the attackers "came in a group, like visitors", until they began attacking people with machetes. The assailants attacked while villagers were celebrating International Women's Day, using machetes to kill over 30 people in Mukondi before killing several others in the nearby village of Mausa. According to local officials, the death toll rose to over 39 killed in the following days, with a large amount injured. Some residents of Mukondi returned after the attack. Mukondi chief Deogratias Kasereka claimed that per modus operandi of the ADF, no guns were used in the attack. ==See also==
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