CODECO militia Stories
The deployment follows recent statements by Gen. Kainerugaba, who last week threatened to capture Bunia in response to alleged attacks on the Bahima e...
The night before, they carried out an attack on a local camp for internally displaced people before being repelled by the U.N. peacekeeping force, kno...
CODECO is one of a myriad of militias fighting over land and resources in eastern DR Congo.
The motive for the attacks was not clear but militia violence in Congo is linked to long-running competition for influence and the region's rich miner...
The latest attack was on the village of Galay in Ituri province.
CODECO fighters ambushed users of a road near the village of Tali, where they stopped 15 people including one woman on Saturday afternoon.
