AFP: With DR Congo's army into forest stronghold of killers
Ituri Storm: The name of an operation that DR Congo's armed forces have launched in a northeastern eastern province against a militia blamed for killing scores of civilians and forcing thousands from their homes.
An AFP photographer embedded with troops in Djugu district found that some 70 percent of villages that he passed through on a stretch of road several dozen kilometres (miles) long had been abandoned and many houses had been torched.
Ituri Storm -- "Zaruba ya Ituri" -- aims to carry the fight into the forest stronghold of a military-religious sect named the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo, or Codeco, recruited among the Lendu, an ethnic farming community.
According to official figures that are impossible to verify, the armed group has killed more than 160 people in Ituri province in June alone and forced about 300,000 civilians to flee.
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More News On Conflict In the Ituri Region Of D.R. Congo
Machete attacks and forest escapes, as conflict returns to Congo’s troubled Ituri -- The New Humanitarian
Uganda strains as thousands flee violence in DR Congo's Ituri -- Al Jazeera
DR Congo president calls Ituri violence 'attempted genocide' -- Al Jazeera
DR Congo: UN food agency triples aid in strife-hit Ituri province -- UN News
Ebola outbreak reaches 2,338 cases among violence in Ituri -- CIDRAP
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