In eastern DR Congo, Allied Defence Forces sows misery
A displaced Pygmie man sits outside his makeshift house on December 16, 2017 in Oicha. Displaced from deep in the forests, Pygmies are now struggling to adapt to more urban villages, but attacks allegedly carried out by the Ugandan Muslim Group, ADF, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have displaced thousands. PHOTO | JOHN WESSELS | AFP
Fourteen peacekeepers were killed and 53 wounded in an ambush by several hundred militiamen, whose weaponry included rocket-propelled grenades.
The toll was the bloodiest against Monusco, the UN force that was deployed in the DR Congo in 1999, and the worst against a UN force since the deaths of 24 Pakistani peacekeepers in Somalia in June 1993.
OICHA,
Jean-De-Dieu was working in the fields in his village of Mamoundioma one day in October when he heard the distant but unmistakeable sound of gunfire.
