{"id":696457,"date":"2026-07-17T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696457\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:36:12","slug":"at-least-20-killed-in-jihadist-attacks-in-eastern-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696457\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 20 killed in jihadist attacks in eastern DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people were killed this week in three attacks by suspected jihadist fighters in eastern DR Congo, according to a report from RFI. <\/p>\n<p>The attacks took place in North Kivu\u2019s Beni territory between the 12 and 15 of July. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, fighters from the Islamic State-linked Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, targeted an area west of the city of Beni &#8211; the seat of North Kivu\u2019s government since Goma fell to the M23 armed group last year. Seven civilians were killed and three soldiers from the Congolese armed forces were ambushed. <\/p>\n<p>Overnight on Tuesday, the ADF attacked the town of Mangina, near the border with Ituri province, killing four civilians. <\/p>\n<p>Ten others were killed in a separate assault on Mangina on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Survivors have been fleeing to Beni town centre, which has so far been spared from attack. <\/p>\n<p>The ADF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/05\/09\/dr-congo-anger-after-rebel-massacre-in-ituri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">brutal campaign of violence <\/a>has been underway in North Kivu and Ituri for years. It includes abductions and forced labour, child recruitment, forced marriage and forced pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report from Amnesty International accused the group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/05\/05\/amnesty-accuses-adf-fighters-of-war-crimes-in-eastern-dr-congo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">war crimes and crimes against humanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 20 people were killed this week in three attacks by suspected jihadist fighters in eastern DR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}