At least a dozen soldiers were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile eastern borderlands where the army is battling Ugandan Islamist rebels, Congolese security and diplomatic sources said on Friday. The armies of Congo and Uganda launched a military offensive last month against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels, who were suspected of being behind a December 8 attack on a UN base that killed 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers. A senior army source said that more than 20 other Congolese soldiers were also wounded after gunmen launched an attack during the night near the town of Eringeti in North Kivu province. A senior Congolese security official confirmed the attack as did a foreign diplomat, who said information he had received put the death toll at 22 Congolese soldiers killed. That does not surprise me," Congolese Defence Minister Crispin Atama Tabe told reporters in the capital Kinshasa when asked about the attack.

Source: The Star January 19, 2018 17:15 UTC