At least 50 people have been killed in the eastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, several local ...

Survivors told Human Rights Watch researchers that the Hema Union of Congolese ... More than 500,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes in Ituri often encountering further violence ...

More than 100 people have been killed by violence in the province since mid-December. The unrest between the Hema cattle herders and Lendu farmers of the Ituri region is one of several conflicts ...

BUNIA - An attack by a militia from the Lendu ethnic group has killed 51 people in northeastern DR Congo, local and humanitarian sources told AFP on Tuesday.Members of the Cooperative for the ...

ISTANBUL (AA) — At least 52 people were killed in an alleged attack by the Cooperative for the Development of Congo (CODECO) ...

Armed militants killed more than 51 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

At least 160 people have reportedly been killed in the latest violence in Ituri province. Most of the victims are believed to be from the Hema community. The exact origins of the latest violence ...

CODECO militants attack the Djaiba group of villages, setting houses full of people on fire, shooting bullets and beheading ...

BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Armed militants killed more than 35 civilians during an attack on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province on ...

There are also seven people wounded,” said Dieudonne Lossa, the president of the organization in Banyari Kilo, the area in Ituri province ... local ethnic group, the Hema, and the army.

then commander of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UDPF) in the Congo, ignored objections of the RCD-ML and created a separate province of Ituri with Bunia as its capital. He named a Hema to ...

often on the majority Hema community in Ituri province. UN mission spokesman Jean-Tobie Okala said in a statement that peacekeepers had managed to protect displaced people in the camp.