Congo machete killings. Officials estimate the death toll to be from 75 to 101.
Congo machete killings. At least 64 people were killed, as 64 bodies had been located during the search. The Kasanga massacre occurred on 12 February 2025, when Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militants entered the village of Mayba in Lubero Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo and abducted at least 70 Christian civilians. Sep 9, 2025 · At least 60 people have been killed while attending a funeral in the conflict-ridden eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in an ISIL (ISIS)-affiliated group attack Aug 19, 2025 · At least 52 civilians, including women and children, have lost their lives in a series of machete attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO. FRANC Feb 24, 2025 · What we know about claims 70 Christians were beheaded in Democratic Republic of Congo MONUSCO, the U. The assailants brandished machetes and firearms, wreaking havoc and mercilessly killing the defenseless churchgoers. Aug 21, 2025 · M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month in one of the worst atrocities by the armed group since its resurgence in late 2021, Human Rights Watch Jul 29, 2025 · Pope Leo and the U. Jul 28, 2025 · The death toll from an attack on a Catholic Church in DR Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader. Local sources attributed the attack to the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist rebel group. Sep 9, 2025 · Johannesburg — At least 60 people were killed in an attack by machete-wielding members of an ISIS-affiliated rebel group in Eastern Congo on Monday night, local officials said Tuesday. Aug 21, 2025 · M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month in one of the worst atrocities by the armed group since its resurgence in late 2021, Human Rights Watch Jul 27, 2025 · This is an AI generated image. Jul 27, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels killed at least 34 people in an attack at a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, according to officials. An unknown number of people were Sep 10, 2025 · At least 60 people were killed in an attack by machete-wielding members of an ISIS-affiliated rebel group in Eastern Congo on Monday night, local officials said Tuesday. The attack took place in the eastern Jul 29, 2025 · The faithful were participating in an evening vigil at a church in Komanda, located in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Militants from the Allied Democratic Forces -- an Islamist group linked to the Islamic State group -- targeted faithful gathered for a youth retreat, opening fire and using machetes before looting homes and attacking displaced persons sheltering nearby. Pope Leo XIV condemns a machete attack in DR Congo that killed 49 Christians during prayer. Jul 29, 2025 · At least 43 people, including children, were killed July 27 in a brutal overnight attack on a Catholic church in Komanda in eastern Congo. The group that killed the faithful is an affiliate of the Islamic state. It said "these terrorists have decided to take revenge on Jul 27, 2025 · At least 21 people were killed on Sunday in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to a civil society leader. Dec 11, 2024 · On 30 August 2023, Congolese soldiers brutally suppressed a demonstration by a political and religious group in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), killing at least 56 people according to the official count, injuring over 80 and arbitrarily arresting over 150 more. Jul 31, 2025 · Eyewitness testimony reveals horrific details of deadly church attack in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday, when 49 Christians, including nine children, were savagely murdered by jihadis. Jun 12, 2023 · At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where civilians are suffering increasing Jul 28, 2025 · ISIL claims responsibility for deadly church attack in eastern DR Congo A UN mission says 43 worshippers were killed in the attack at a night mass in a church. They attributed the killings to the Allied Democratic Oct 27, 2025 · By Sabrine Amboka ACI Africa, Feb 23, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Open Doors field sources say the violence began at about 4 a. Aug 15, 2016 · GOMA, DR Congo – Civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, August 15, said the number of people hacked to death in the restive east this weekend has risen to 51. The attack put an end to months-long calm in Feb 22, 2025 · Reports indicate that 70 Christians were beheaded by Islamic militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Feb 4, 2025 · A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Feb 15, 2022 · Militants armed with guns and machetes killed at least 15 people and injured four on Tuesday in an early morning raid on a village in Congo's eastern Ituri province, according to local authorities. Léon Oct 24, 2023 · BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo :Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and Feb 24, 2025 · Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. Jul 29, 2025 · Pope Leo XIV has expressed his deep concern over a tragic machete attack that resulted in the deaths of 49 Christians during prayer in Congo. Aug 20, 2025 · Rwandan-backed M23 rebels killed scores of civilians this month in eastern Congo, survivors recounted, just weeks after a peace deal hailed by the White House. Sep 3, 2024 · More than 120 people have been killed in an attempted mass breakout from the largest prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the latest in a series of violent attacks on jails in the central Feb 24, 2025 · As the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group continues to wreak death and devastation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources of the Pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need confirm the brutal killing of 70 civilians perpetrated in recent days in a village in North Kivu by the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Nearly 40 people were killed Sunday in eastern Congo's Ituri province when rebels stormed a Catholic church during a vigil and opened fire on Aug 20, 2025 · The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians, in at least 14 villages and farming areas in July 2025 near Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. 19 hours ago · Democratic Republic of Congo giants Tout Puissant Mazembe have confirmed that one of their supporters was killed during Sunday's Linafoot derby against FC Saint-Etoi Lupopo, after being struck by Mar 20, 2022 · DR Congo: Fourteen killed in machete attack in Ituri province Seven children, including a two-year-old girl, and five women aged between 25 and 32 were killed, says Red Cross. Jul 27, 2025 · At least 21 people were killed on Sunday in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to a civil society leader. The captives were subsequently taken to a Protestant church in Kasanga, North Kivu, where they were beheaded via machetes. The Jul 28, 2025 · Yet another deadly attack on civilians The ADF operates in the border area between Uganda and Congo and has frequently launched attacks on the civilian population, killing thousands. Aug 18, 2025 · ISIL-backed rebels killed at least 52 people in eastern DR Congo, UN says MONUSCO condemns the attacks by the ADF ‘in the strongest possible terms’, the mission’s spokesperson says. Apr 5, 2021 · ‘They cut out his heart’: Machete killers run wild in Congo’s hidden war Frenzied armed gangs have forced the population of an area the size of Ireland to flee in a humanitarian crisis the Aug 20, 2025 · Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday that highlighted how violence remains elevated Oct 24, 2023 · BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 24 (Reuters) - S uspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. Jul 30, 2025 · #BREAKING: Islamic State-backed rebels killed 43 people on Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo. The group’s leader, Jamil Mukulu—a Christian convert to Islam— reportedly fled to Kenya. In yet another brutal assault in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 38 people were killed on Sunday when Islamic State-linked rebels attacked a Catholic church complex in Komanda, torching homes and shops and leaving behind scenes of devastation. The Allied Democratic Forces have the same ideology as Hamas. Jul 28, 2025 · At least 43 people, including children, were killed July 27 in a brutal overnight attack on a Catholic church in Komanda in eastern Congo. Jul 29, 2025 · Pope Leo and the U. 12 and Feb Nov 13, 2023 · Armed attackers tied up at least 19 villagers and killed them with machetes and other weapons in a raid in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late on Sunday, a civil society leader Jul 28, 2025 · 7/28/2025 DRC — The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) struck the town of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ituri Province late Saturday night into Sunday morning, killing nearly 40 people with machetes. condemned the attack by Islamic State-linked extremists that killed 49 Christians in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a predominantly Christian country. [5] Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias. Aug 20, 2025 · One woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo said M23 rebels killed her husband with a machete before forcing her and 70 others to march to a riverbank, where fighters opened fire. The atrocity was perpetrated by the March 23 Movement (M23), a predominantly Rwandan-backed Tutsi armed group, following clashes with local militias and FARDC. Aug 20, 2025 · Rwanda backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed hundreds of villagers in July, according to Human Rights Watch, raising doubts about Trump backed peace process. Feb 2, 2022 · Machete-wielding militiamen killed at least 40 people at a site for displaced persons in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a monitoring group and local sources said Wednesday. Jul 30, 2025 · Pope Leo XIV condemns machete massacre that killed over 40 Christians during night vigil in DR Congo’s Komanda. The group, Natural Messianic Judaic Faith Towards the Nations – The Power of Word (FNJMN), whose followers Dec 2, 2022 · UN mission denounces DR Congo ‘massacre’, calls for investigation Peacekeeping mission condemns ‘appalling act’ as it calls for an immediate end to violence against civilians in the east. Feb 23, 2025 · Locals at a village in the embattled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are appealing for prayers after approximately 70 bodies were found inside a church building in Feb 22, 2025 · Seventy Christians were brutally beheaded with machetes by Islamist militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 13, according to Open Doors, an organization monitoring Feb 28, 2025 · Seventy Christians were found bound and beheaded inside a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Lubero Territory of North Kivu in mid-February. The pre Jul 27, 2025 · The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader. Responding to ADF attacks in January that left 15 dead, pastors in North Kivu province told International Christian Concern (ICC) that the violence often targets Christians and has decimated Feb 24, 2025 · On February 13, 2025, militants rounded up 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), took them to a church, and then killed all 70 of them. Warning: This video includes graphic description of violence and images some may find distressing. While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 million people were killed, most The Kishishe massacre (French: Massacre de Kishishe) took place between 21–30 November 2022 in the Bwito Chiefdom of Rutshuru Territory, North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Our Jul 30, 2025 · A new massive assault on Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has drawn condemnation from the Pope, the State Department, the United Nations, and a prominent… United Nations and army officials say fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Congo has left at least 13 peacekeepers and foreign soldiers dead. "Our team on the ground has counted 51 bodies slain with machetes," said Teddy Kataliko, a member of a local alliance of NGOs and unions Jul 29, 2025 · A burial following a previous attack on Christians in the DR Congo. An Jan 5, 2025 · More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said. Jul 27, 2025 · At least 38 killed in church attack in eastern DR Congo The assault in Komanda city is believed to have been carried out by ADF rebels, wielding guns and machetes. Their bodies were discovered on 14 Feb 11, 2025 · Authorities say militia fighters in northeastern Congo have killed at least 55 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages and a camp for displaced people camp. At least 52 civilians have been killed in a series of brutal attacks by Islamic State-backed Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in the Beni and Lubero territories of eastern Democratic On 14 August 2016, multiple assailants raided the district of Rwangoma in the city of Beni which is located in North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ITV News Africa Correspondent John Ray meets young and old The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi or the Tutsi genocide, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Mar 14, 2025 · The BBC speaks to multiple sources who say M23 fighters hunted down and killed young men in Goma. "Congo machete attack: 26 killed by suspected Islamist militants," by Erikas Mwisi Kambale, Reuters, October 24, 2023: BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the. Jul 28, 2025 · More than 40 people were killed Sunday in an attack by Allied Democratic Forces rebels in northeastern DR Congo, ending a months-long period of regional calm, the UN mission and Congolese military Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. m. "At Sep 9, 2025 · Johannesburg — At least 60 people were killed in an attack by machete-wielding members of an ISIS-affiliated rebel group in Eastern Congo on Monday night, local officials said Tuesday. Officials estimate the death toll to be from 75 to 101. Jul 28, 2025 · Nearly 90% of Islamic State's operations are now carried out by its affiliates in Africa - this propaganda video is said to show a previous ADF attack in DR Congo More than 40 people were killed Pope Leo XIV condemns a brutal machete attack in DR Congo that claimed the lives of 49 Christians during prayer. [1] A preliminary investigation by Aug 18, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels armed with machetes and hoes have killed at least 52 civilians in the Beni and Lubero areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, UN and local officials said. The Pope described this incident as “barbaric” and called for an immediate end to violence against innocent individuals. Sep 9, 2025 · Johannesburg — At least 60 people were killed in an attack by machete-wielding members of an ISIS-affiliated rebel group in Eastern Congo on Monday night, local officials said Tuesday. Jul 28, 2025 · More than 30 Christian worshippers were killed during a prayer vigil in a church in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Militants from the Allied Democratic Forces – an Islamist group linked to the Islamic State group – targeted faithful gathered for a youth retreat, opening fire and using machetes before looting homes Oct 24, 2023 · Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. “The bodies of the victims are still at the Apr 16, 2025 · None spared in Nigeria gun, machete massacre: survivors Jos (Nigeria) (AFP) – People were hacked to death with machetes. Aug 15, 2016 · Civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said the number of people hacked to death in the restive east this weekend has risen to 51. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a jihadist group linked Jul 27, 2025 · The Congolese military said "about 40 people were surprised and killed with machetes and several others were seriously injured". A civil society leader in Komanda, in the northeastern Mar 27, 2018 · BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane visits the site of a gruesome massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Locals at a village in the embattled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are appealing for prayers after approximately 70 bodies were found inside a church building in the village. Feb 21, 2025 · Members of the militia reportedly detained many Christian villagers before tying them up in a local protestant church and decapitating them with machetes. Feb 3, 2022 · More than 50 civilians were killed when machete-wielding militiamen attacked a site for displaced people in strife-torn eastern DR Congo, sources said. Oct 24, 2023 · BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. Aug 19, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels armed with machetes and hoes have killed at least 52 civilians in the Beni and Lubero areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, UN and local Aug 3, 2025 · The merciless slaughter of at least 40 people—21 of them at a prayer vigil—in a machete attack in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday is part of a systematic and escalating Jul 29, 2025 · Islamic State-allied terrorists killed 49 Christians in church attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as experts warn sub-Saharan Africa becomes new epicenter of jihadi violence. on Thursday, February 13, 2025, as militants captured and tied up some 20 Christians in the community of Mayba. Just two weeks ago, 66 people were killed in the Irumu area. Jul 27, 2025 · Dozens of people were killed on Sunday in an attack on a church in eastern Congo by a rebel group linked to the Islamic State. Gunfire erupted everywhere, seemingly at random. Local sources contacted by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International said the killings took place between Feb. peacekeeping force in the DRC, said the reported killings were under investigation but Jul 27, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels have attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo, killing at least 34 people. Militants reportedly rounded up the Christians and took them to the church in Kasanga, where they were decapitated by machete. Jul 27, 2025 · The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader. The rebels, armed with guns and machetes, attacked the church in the Jul 28, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels have killed nearly 40 people during an attack on a church in eastern Congo. The city is located in the popular Virunga National Park. (Photo: Open Doors) At least 40 people, including Christians, have been killed in what Open Doors has described as a "killing spree" in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fifty-two people, some of them children Feb 4, 2022 · After a brazen assault on a displaced persons camp that killed about 60 people, the most seriously wounded were airlifted to a hospital where a Times photographer recorded their accounts. Jul 28, 2025 · The militant "Islamic State" group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo, leaving more than 40 people dead. Jul 28, 2025 · ”May the blood of these martyrs become a seed of peace, reconciliation, fraternity, and love for the Congolese people,” the Pope writes in his message following a brutal attack on a Catholic Church in Komanda town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. N. Jun 22, 2024 · An armed group using machetes and guns has killed 23 people in attacks on villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in recent days, authorities in the country have said. Jul 28, 2025 · Father Aime Lokana Dhego, center, celebrates a funeral Mass in Komanda, in Congo's province of Ituri, July 28, 2025, for victims of a horrific attack on the Catholic church in Komanda, where at least 43 faithful were shot or killed with machetes during an overnight vigil in the church July 27. His remarks highlight the urgent need for peace and security in regions plagued by conflict. Feb 20, 2025 · Seventy decapitated bodies have been discovered in a church in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to Open Doors, which supports persecuted Christians around the world. Nov 13, 2023 · At least 23 people were killed when Islamist militants raided a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late on Sunday, a local official and a humanitarian worker said. Of the victims, 21 were attending a prayer vigil in a 1 day ago · Democratic Republic of Congo giants Tout Puissant Mazembe have confirmed that one of their supporters was killed during Sunday's Linafoot derby against FC Saint-Etoi Lupopo, after being struck by a machete. Oct 24, 2023 · BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Suspected Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its Jul 27, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels killed 38 people on Sunday in an attack on a church in eastern Congo, city officials said. Oct 26, 2023 · It's the same all over. At Aug 18, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels massacred 52 civilians in eastern Congo, targeting villages with machetes and hoes. Feb 6, 2025 · Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after the provincial capital was captured by rebels Jul 27, 2025 · At least 34 people were killed in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to a civil society leader. "The bodies of the victims are still at the Jul 27, 2025 · Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader. 1mns6hmqyi8oxwhoiisc1uh90ydbodrhpcywyximof6a