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==