...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka
Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
carried out by a group linked to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
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Fighters for the Allied Democratic Forces
...established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC....(ADF) bumped off around 20 worshippers participating in a night vigil, according to local officials in Komanda, a town in the north-east of the country.
They also looted and set fire to various nearby shops and businesses and razed several homes to the ground, the BBC reports.
Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in the town, suggested that more bodies could yet be found following the merciless attack.
He said: 'More than 21 people were rubbed out inside and outside [the church] and we have recorded at least three charred bodies and several houses burned.
'But the search is continuing,' he added.
Local priest Aime Lokana Dhego, meanwhile, said: 'We have at least 31 dead members of the Eucharistic Crusade movement, with six seriously injured.
'Some young people were kidnapped, we have no news of them.'