In the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mobondo militias attacked army positions in the village of Kinsele. Authorities report a death toll of about fifty dead, including 42 militiamen, in the clashes with the army.
Intercommunity tensions in the territory of Kwamouth in Maï-Ndombe, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo,persist.
He added:"We struggle to understand how these people, civilians as they are, with machetes, sticks and 12 calibers, organised themselves to attack the well-armed soldiers...They must have formed a rebel movement." At the beginning of April, traditional leaders and militia leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo signed an agreement with the government in the presence of President Félix Tshisekedi to cease hostilities.
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