The death toll in a suspected militia attack has risen to seven, an army spokesman told AFP on Friday, after armed men attacked civilians and a military position in the eastern DR Congo city of Beni. The attackers raided the city’s southern district of Rwangoma overnight, said regional spokesman Major Mak Hazukay, who updated the previous toll of five dead. ADF are attempting an incursion in the city of Oisha (north of Beni) and in Mbau-Kamango they attacked an army position,” said Hazukay. More than a hundred armed groups, both local and foreign, are active in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. On Friday he reiterated that pledge while on a visit to neighbouring Republic of Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville.

Source: Punch February 08, 2019 21:00 UTC