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The province of ituri is under fire as ADF continues to butcher innocent congolese.The massacres of NTOMBI / MAMBABIO on Thursday,28/05/2020, brings the number to 642 civilians massacred by the ADF, in retaliation for the large-scale offensive launched against them by FARDC since October 2019.

  An attack by the Mai-Mai Biloze Bishambuke at the of refugee camp in the territory, during the morning of May 28, injured 7 among the displaced and one dead in the ranks of Mai - Mai. "The provisional record shows arrested Mai-Mai element, an AK47 weapon recovered, 7 displaced people were injured, affected by stray bullets", says Captain Dieudonné Kasereka, military spokesperson for Operation Sukola 2 South Kivu. The army has recovered 89 cows stolen by these Mai-Mai, who attacked the refugee camp. " They attacked the camp of the displaced. We pushed them back and they are being chased by the FARDC. Until this moment, operations continue ", reassures the military hierarchy. Two blue helmets soldiers were also injured in these incidents.

At the invitation of the Republic of Rwanda through its Ministry of Health, a delegation of the DRC authorities participated this Thursday, May 28th at the border post at the single stop "la ledge", Grand Est, a meeting bilateral of the Ministers of Health, Trade and Local Government of Rwanda and the Deputy Minister of Interior and Health of the Democratic Republic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This meeting was held in the framework of strengthening collaboration between the two countries in the field of public health and specifically aimed at making proposals for high-level political commitments to strengthen cross-border cooperation in the field of cross-border cooperation. monitoring of the 19 and its implications on cross-border trade in accordance with the specific measures taken in each country. The two delegates discussed the need for a cross-border consultation framework setting out joint measures for prevention and case management of surveillance, sharing

A new authority tasked with boosting society's “overall resilience within the psychological defence” should be established, according to investigator Anders Danielsson. In his own words, this aims to “safeguard the formation of opinions” and “parry undue influence and other misleading information”. Sweden should establish a new authority for “psychological defence” in order to counter “disinformation” and rescue the country's image and reputation, a state investigation has proposed . According to the report penned by former Director General of the Swedish Security Police Anders Danielsson, this would “parry undue influence and other misleading information”. Danielsson suggested that Sweden was exposed, among other things, to so-called “impact operations” that try and sow discord in the country. The authority should therefore target “antagonistic actors” who spread information the authorities deem to be false. The new body, according to Danielsson, would “safeguard the formatio

The US State Department signed off on three proposed weapons sales to modernize Patriot missile defences in Kuwait in a package totaling more than $1.4 billion, the Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said on Thursday. The packages include 84 missile segment enhancers for $800 million, missile repair items valued at $200 million, plus a training and technical support deal worth $425 million, the Pentagon agency said in multiple statements. “The proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a Major Non-NATO Ally that is an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East”, three separate press releases said, using identical language. The centerpiece of the package, $800 million for 84 Missile Segment Enhancements (MSEs), also includes spare parts, tools and testing supplies and a long list of related equipment, which DSCA said will “improve Kuwait's capability to

The US Space Force has launched a series of classes aimed at training army personnel in "warfighting" to maintain military hegemony, the US Space Force announced this week. The 319 Combat Training Squadron (CTS) instructor cadre would begin teaching Space Warfighting (SWF) courses at the Peterson's Moorman Space Education and Training Centre on Wednesday, it said. Disciplines covered in the training series included Orbital Warfare, Space Battle Management and Space Electronic Warfare, the report read. Graduates from Undergraduate Space Training would "immediately" move to the new programme's Follow-on courses, according to the announcement. “Our modern lives depend on our space capabilities, and potential adversaries are actively attempting to exploit the benefits space provides us. Every day our space warfighters purposefully prepare to negate potential adversaries’ attempts to claim space superiority over us,” Lt Col Daniel Sebeck, 319th Combat Training Sq

According to our source in FiZI,Two blue helmets soldiers were injured during a militiamen attack on Thursday, 28 May against the temporary base of the United Nations Stabilization Organization Mission in the Congo (MONUSCO) located in the (territory territory) ) in South Kivu. The attack is as of  now nolonger in action and the calm has returned, says the Mission. The high plateau of Mwenga, are affected by self-defense armed groups that belong mainly to the local Banyamulenge, Bembe and Bafuliiru communities that have been fighting for more than two years. Last March, a militiamen attack was carried out against a camp of the displaced in Mikenge. They have gathered since 2019 near the base of the blue helmets after the armed violence that ravaged several villages forcing many families to move.

5 militiamen from the coalition of armed groups Ngumino and Twigwaneho were killed in clashes with the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) near Minembwe in the territory of Fizi in South Kivu. In these attacks, 2 FARDC soldiers were also killed and another 3 injured. The news was confirmed this Wednesday, May 2020, 27 by Captain Dieudonné Kasereka, operating sector door 2 South Kivu. He says that it has been since Saturday 23 May that two rebel armed groups attack FARDC positions. " The coalition of armed groups Ngumino and Twigwaneho has been attacking different positions of FARDC around the rural commune of Minembwe in the territory of Fizi in the territory of Fizi. For 4 days, 2 military killed and 3 were seriously injured. 5 militiamen were killed as well ", he said. Captain Dieudonné Kasereka also claims that the same rebel coalition went to attack the the armed group "Biloze Bishambuke". He says that for now the calm has returned and t

The Joint United Nations Office for Human Rights (BCNUDH) is concerned about the situation in Ituri (eastern DRC). According to his latest report, at least 296 people were killed, 151 injured and 38 people raped, including many women and children, by the majority Lendu armed attackers between October 2019 and April 2020. According to the reports, these attacks on civilians escalated from March 2020, especially around artisanal mining sites, and extended to the territories of Mahagi and Irumu. " In addition to the Hema and the Alur, the violence affected members of the communities so far, including Mambisa, Nyali and Ndo-Okebo, of which 17 members were killed on March 14 by machete or by weapons of fire by the attackers, who also burned several homes and a health centre after looting all the drugs ", says the BCNUDH. This violence has led to a new flow of displaced persons to Bunia and other urban centres that are considered safer. " Since June 2018, hundreds of thousands

With the rise in presence of Chinese navy in the Indian Ocean Region, India has been developing its southern air base as most modern base, equipped with all the necessary infrastructure. Earlier this year, India had inducted BrahMos equipped Sukhoi at Thanjavaur in southern state of Tamil Nadu. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has operationalised the second squadron of home-grown Tejas fighter jet on Wednesday at Air Force Station (AFS) Sulur, in the southern part of the country. The first squadron of Tejas was formed in 2016. Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria flew the LCA Tejas fighter with 45 Squadron at Air Force Station Sulur. Fully Loaded Tejas will play major role while dealing with enemy in the Indian Ocean  These  tweets today reveal it all: Region #Tejas pic.twitter.com/OnwVIEp6kP — Rishikesh Kumar (@rishhikesh) May 27, 2020 Dubbed the Number 18 Squadron Flying Bullets, the fully loaded Tejas fighters will fortify the nation's air power in the Indian Ocean R

The serial delivery of Russia's new Broneboyschik (armour piercer) air-launched missiles to the country's army is planned for 2021, documents for making it operational will soon be drafted, the CEO of Tecmash arms industry company (part of state corporation Rostec) has said in an interview. "Everything is ready for producing Broneboyschik. Moreover, we have created a batch of these missiles for test exploitation by troops at our own expense. We hope that all the matters will be settled this year, and batch deliveries to the troops will start in 2021", Alexander Kochkin said. After state tests of the new air-launched missile were finished in 2019, the state customer updated some of the requirements outlined in the design specification, Tecmash CEO recalled. "All these issues have already been settled with the Defence Ministry. In the next few days, the preparation of documents for passing Broneboyschik into service will start", Kochkin said. Broneboyschik is

The United States and Saudi Arabia are holding week-long joint military exercises at islands in the northern Persian Gulf, the Navy said on Tuesday. "The US and Saudi forces are conducting routine and joint sustainment training on and around Karan and Kurayn islands, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 24-30 May 2020", the Navy said in a statement. US forces in the still ongoing exercise are comprised of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BATARG) and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and they are performing mission-essential training and planning with their Saudi partners, the US Navy said. "The ability to plan and operate with other forces supports our ability to rapidly deploy aviation, maritime, and ground combat elements – all from over the horizon – at a moment’s notice in order to support maritime security, freedom of navigation, and the free flow of commerce”, 26th MEU commander Colonel Trevor Hall said in the report. In coordination with their Saudi partners, US Nava

On Tuesday, the French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) and the Agency for the Safety of Health Products (ANSM) had suspended the use of hydroxychloroquine as a means to combat COVID-19 for both the treatment of patients and clinical trials. The French government has cancelled a decree permitting hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of coronavirus. Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) paused an extended trial of the malaria drug due to safety concerns. At the end of March, France decided to allow the use of hydroxychloroquine in specific situations, and exclusively in hospitals. The study, published last Friday in The Lancet medical journal, revealed that there was an increased risk of death when the drug was used for patients with COVID-19. The publication prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to halt its clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine on Monday as a precautional measure. The number of people wh

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Félix Antoine Tshisekedi tshilombo exchanged ideas over the phone on Tuesday, May 2020, 26 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to the presidential press, the exchanges between the two personalities have focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which has been shaking the world for a few months already. Félix Tshisekedi and Benjamin Netanyahu also mentioned Israeli investments in the DRC, finance as well as defense and security. According to the same source, cybersecurity, agriculture, agri-food and watertechnology  were also discussed. As a reminder, President Tshisekedi had taken advantage of his visit to the United States last March as part of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, (AIPAC), to announce the resumption of diplomatic relations between the DRC and Israel, as well as his support to Donald Trump's controversial peace plan.

As a prelude to the meeting of the Superior Council of National Defence, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, supreme commander of FARDC and police, gathered the officials of the civil and military security services, Monday, May 2020, 25,. For more than 4 hours, issues related to the establishment of security permanently throughout the national territory have been discussed.. Around the Head of State, " All security officials, both civil and military, have thought deeply to prepare for the next meeting of the High Defence Council said Aimé Ngoy I, Minister of National Defence, reporting of the meeting. " It was a question of thinking deeply to see how to bring security back to other parts of the country, where armed groups still operate he said. Minister of National Defence and all the other persons responsible for security met on Tuesday, May 2020, 26, on instructions from the Head of State, around the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister from the interior to "think deeply"

The response team against the-19 in the DRC, reports 143 new confirmed cases of the disease out of the 410 samples tested, including 95 registered in Kinshasa, 20 in North Kivu, 12 in South Kivu, 11 in Central Kongo, 4 in Haut-Katanga and 1 at Kwilu. The accumulation is now increasing to 2.546 confirmed cases. On Tuesday,twenty-five (25) new people were declared healed, bringing the total winners to 365. In the rank of death, no additional reports were reported. 67 is so far, the number of deaths in the country. The newsletter also shows that 567 suspect cases are being investigated and 1679 evolving patients. Seven of the twenty-six provinces in the country are affected by this pandemic declared in the DRC on March 10th. This is Kinshasa with 2.293, Ituri with 2 cases, of with 2 cases, Haut-Katanga with 21 cases, North Kivu with 35 cases, from South Kivu Kivu with 16 cases and Kongo Central with 176 cases. .....thanks to our sources.......

It was around 4 am , Tuesday, May 2020, 26 that armed men identified with the Ugandan rebels of the Ugandan rebels made their foray into Samboko, a village located in Chieftainship of Walesse Vonkutu, territory of Irumu more than 130 km south of the city of Bunia. Local civil society delivering information to buniaactualite.com says that 14 people were killed this Monday around 4 am and 40 others were killed the next day, making a total of 54 dead in only two days. " Yesterday at around 4 am, the Ugandan rebels called ADF arrived in the village Samboko, they started shooting in the air. When the population began to run in every way, the ADF started cutting people with machete says Gili Gotabo, coordinator of this citizen structure. He calls for a strengthening of the military in this border part of Beni (North Kivu), where these out have been running for years. " The national and provincial government must affect several mileage in the territory to end this kind of s

Members have removed the first Vice-President of their National Assembly by a very large majority. The evening will have been heated in the National Assembly and yet the vote of the petition which was to lead to the removal of Jean-Marc Kabund-a-Kabund, also president a.i. of udps by Félix Tshisekedi's only decision, did not do any doubt. Indeed, since the announcement of Félix Tshisekedi's presidential victory (without any ticket of a voting office has ever been published), the presidential party knows that it is and will always be under the supervision of a legislative power national fully in the hands of Joseph Kabila's Common Front for Congo (FCC). MLC MP Jean-Jacques Mamba's petition, launched on the grounds that the first vice president of the National Assembly would have negatively affected the image of his institution by publicly providing on the air of a kinoise radio that call a convention to vote the state Health emergency in the face of the coro

The island enjoys a certain degree of autonomy in terms of its economy and laws, but recently Beijing decided to introduce stricter penalties for treason and sedition in light of the protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019 and which led to casualties as well as numerous accounts of vandalism. China's Foreign Ministry has harshly criticised Washington's recent attempts to meddle in its policies towards Hong Kong, vowing to use "every necessary measure" to stop the US from doing so in the future if necessary. The ministry's spokesman Zhao Lijian argued that Washington had "no right to criticise and interfere" in how Beijing regulates its semi-autonomous territory . "What laws, how, and when Hong Kong SAR [Special Administrative Region] should legislate are entirely within the scope of China’s sovereignty. If the US insists on hurting China’s interests, China will have to take every necessary measure to counter and oppose this", Zhao Lijian stat

The Earth has a moderately strong magnetic field, which is generated by superheated liquid iron that makes up the outer core of our planet. The magnetic field is vital to life as it shields the Earth’s ozone layer from solar winds, cosmic rays, and harmful ultraviolet radiation. The Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement, citing data from its Swarm mission, a constellation of satellites that was launched in 2013. According to the ESA, over the last 200 years, the Earth’s magnetic has field has lost 9 percent of its strength. In 1958, scientists discovered the South Atlantic Anomaly, an area that sits between Africa and South America where the magnetic field has been weakening considerably. According to the ESA’s latest study, this area has grown and moved westward at a pace of around 12 miles (20 km) per year and scientists cannot explain why. Moreover, according to data provided by the Swarm mission, which studies our planet’s ma

In September 2019, the president of Belarus stated that he would take steps towards cooperating with his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky in order for Minsk to create its own rocket. The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, expressed his desire to discuss possible cooperation in rocket construction with Chinese President Xi Jinping.  Having previously suggested the possibility of building Chinese missiles in Belarus, Lukashenko insisted that there should be "no dependence" on foreign actors. "Let me then negotiate that on my level, I'm ready to negotiate that with Xi Jinping, I don't think that will be a problem", the president said. The statement came after Lukashenko was updated on the state of missile development in Belarus and the construction of Chinese rockets. In particular, he was told that there have been successful moves towards the development and eventual deployment of the country's own missiles, that could destroy target

The have been reported clashes from Minembwe between FARDC and the rebels, on Sunday, May 2020, 23 for 13 hours. According to local sources, the exchange of heavy weapon's fire was heard in the village of Kakenge located in the eastern part of the city of Minembwe, Basimuniaka-Sud group. These clashes have been against the Congolese army, FARDC and the Ngumino militiamen. No record is available yet, but the population of Minembwe centre are engulfed in panic. International, national and local humanitarian agents, present in Minembwe, had taken refuge in the camps. According to other sources, mentioned by the radio Tanganyika Hope, the last position of FARDC would be towards the Ugeafi office, which  is less than a mile from Madegu centre / Minembwe. It should be noted that, as of 23 May 2020, there was exchanges of fire between FARDC and the inhabitants in the village of Ilundu which located north of Minembwe. These Banyamulenge people are telling FARDC that rebels  steal p

Self-proclaimed Colonel Chance Mihonya, who operated in the Reserves National Park in South Kivu, was arrested by the game rangers on Saturday, May 2020, 23 at this tourist site. The news is confirmed this Sunday, May 2020, 24 by Hubert Mulongoy, communication manager of Kahuzi Reserves National Park. He says that this militiaman leader has been made available to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. " It was around 14 pm that he was arrested by the ecogardes at the level of the Nyaweza river where he was mining the ore. He is now in the dungeon of the Loyalists forces ", he explains. He says that this lord of geurre, who carried out illegal activities, including the destruction of the park and mining of ore, will be presented to the governor of the province on Monday, May 25th. Hubert Mulongoy, communication manager of Kahuzi Reserves National Park, reports that 33 elements of militiaman leader Chance Mihonya have been arrested two weeks ago in th

According to our reliable sources in ituri,The DRC army, on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 May, neutralized 17 elements of the cooperative Militia for the Development of Congo (CODECO) in Djugu, while recovering villages and guns and ammunitions. This, in 3 axes where the tracking and neutralization operations of these attackers continue in the territory of Djugu (Nyangarayi axis, Linga axis and Logo-Jiro axis). " On the Nyangarayi axis, the sokdiers of the 112 Rapid Reaction Battalion have neutralized 13 CODECO attackers. The guns and  ammunitions recovered by these brave military. On the FARDC side, 1 dead and 6 light wounded explains Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, military spokesperson in Ituri. The same source says that, 4 more militias were killed on the Linga axis. During these operations, the villages Dhebu, Chulu, Ndalo, Dhendo in the of Pitsi sector were conquered and passed under FARDC control. Same for Logo and Jiro locations. In addition, Lieutenant Jules Ngongo reveals th

The Deputy Commander of the 3rd Defense Zone, in charge of operations and intelligence, General Smith Gihaga, has been staying in Aru (Ituri) since Saturday. He co-ordinates a security situation assessment mission following the attacks of the Codeco militia. This expedition is also aimed at strengthening military presence in some problem areas. He will make it to Kengezi base, at the border with southern Sudan. According to our source in ITURI,his mission also aims to check allegations of the presence of the South Sudan military on Congolese soil, especially in Berunda. On Friday, 23 May, the government had reported incursions by the South-Sudanese army into Congolese territory, precisely in the Ituri and Haut-Uele provinces. "Our services have been educated to react strongly to these movements", said the government in its report of the Council of Ministers.

In the letter, the signatories - which include tech justice NGO Foxglove and digital rights campaigners Access Now - say the proposed app could be another step towards a surveillance state. Campaign groups have written an open letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning GCHQ and its digital arm, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will have the capacity to re-identify the phones of people who install the country’s coronavirus contact-tracing app. They also note the legal framework underpinning the software, which is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight, is believed to be inadequate to protect people from misuse of their data by the Joint Committee on Human Rights. “Parliament has to quickly issue an adequate legal framework that guarantees users’ human rights protection. In addition, contrary to some recommendations, the app the Government is trialling uses a centralised model for the collection, processing and storage of users’ data. The centralised rec

Such is the controversy over the decision, Downing Street isn’t convinced the plan would pass a vote in the House of Commons, despite the government having an 80 seat majority. Boris Johnson is to “look again” at his decision to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to build more than a third of Britain’s 5G broadband network, amid fresh concerns by spy agencies and growing rebellion on the Conservative backbenches. New US sanctions imposed on the firm outlaw any intellectual property from being used in the production of Huawei equipment - chips manufactured for use in Huawei products use US technology, but British spies warn future Chinese alternatives cannot be trusted, scuppering plans to use the tech in 35 percent of Britain’s new 5G network. “We think the new sanctions slapped on Huawei by the US basically mean no US intellectual property can be used in the manufacture of Huawei’s chips. This means bits of kit they get from Taiwan and elsewhere, which we think are full of good US

France’s directorate-general for external security (DGSE), the country’s equivalent of the US Central Intelligence Agency and UK MI6, is seeking to recruit geeks rather than James Bond, its technical director Patrick Pailloux has said. In a rare public intervention, Pailloux told Agence France-Presse he believed there was a danger many tech-savvy young French citizens didn’t consider themselves suitable spies given stereotypes of the country’s intelligence services, such as those popularised by smash-hit TV drama Le Bureau des Legendes (known as Le Bureau outside France). “We need people who are very connected to new technologies – thus young people. We have to bring them into the DGSE, it’s essential. [Young people] have James Bond and the special forces in their heads. They think, 'I am not Rambo, I am a geek’, and it doesn’t occur to them to enter the DGSE. But it’s not only supermen who are supercharged. If you are supercharged in science then you can also serve your count

Since the advent of phishing in itself, different types of scams have existed ranging from one-fits-all emails to targeted spearphishing campaigns. One such type happens to fall into the category of subpoena themed emails in which the attacker claiming to be an authority, tries to convince the victim into falling for their trap. These although not so common have occurred from time to time. An example is of November last year when malicious actors targeted users posing as the UK’s Ministry of Justice and tried to infect them with a malware named “Predator the Thief . Similarly, just a couple of days ago, Armorblox – an email protection company – has released a report on how this time threat actors are sending fake emails purportedly from the UK’s supreme court. Here is a screenshot of the phishing email: Image: Armorblox To make sure, it evades regular security filters, the attackers only send the email to specific users instead of bulk-messaging which ensures that it isn’t “c

The trove of Indian job seekers data is being downloaded by threat actors worldwide. India has a huge job market and the same goes for those seeking jobs. Now, hackers have taken advantage of the opportunity and leaked a treasure trove of data belong to millions of Indian job seekers. The data was identified by Cyble, a cyber threat intelligence company, and noted personal details of around 29 million job-seeking Indians from different states dumped on the dark web and hacker forms for anyone to download. Screenshot of the leaked data (Image: Cyble) The original leak, according to Cyble, appears to be from a resume (CV) aggregator service that collects data from different job portals in India. In its official press release , Cyble stated that a threat actor has posted approximately 2.3 GB of data in a zipped file on a hacking forum operating on the dark web, and this particular file belongs to the resume aggregator service. According to the company, the data contains sensitiv

The leak came after a misconfigured Elasticsearch server exposed Facebook users’ data involved in a previous breach. For the last few years I have been complaining about guarantee of the security of personal data of Ugandans/Africans using Facebook and other social media platforms, Facebook has been embroiled in a range of controversies ranging from the social network’s hegemony over the internet to scandals like that of Cambridge Analytica in 2018. Not to forget just a few weeks ago a hacker was found selling personal data of 267 million Facebook users . To tackle these, the company claims to take certain measures but despite that, slips here and there have continued to occur. The latest in this episode was reported by Safety Detectives whose research team headed by Anurag Sen discovered that the data of 12 million Facebook users based in Vietnam has been leaked. According to the researchers, the data was found on an Elasticsearch server and includes records found in a previous b

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took stock of the situation at the borders at the 32th meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired by the head of state Félix Antoine Tshisekedi tshilombo on 22 May 2020 by video conference .. And in this respect, the national executive has reported South Sudan military incursions into the Ituri and Haut-Uélé provinces. According to the record of the said council signed by the government spokesperson David-jolino Makelele, the services concerned were told to react "strongly" to these movements. The Government of the Republic has also noted the continued evictions of Congolese from Angola via the city of Tshikapa in the province of Kasai. With regard to militias at the border with Zambia (KALUBAMBA and KIBANGA), the Government has said that Congolese troops remain alert to deal with the threat in case negotiations under the aegis of the CFDC do not stop .. The National Executive has also reported that the Southern

Surrender of the leader of the  Armed group of Mr. MAHESHE with 120 of his militia men and 20 weapons thanks to the work of the  Provincial administration and the MONUSCO. No more rebel activities will he   operate on the Ngweshe-Walungu axis. The people of south kivu aspire to attaining peace and security. Calling on other rebellious groups to follow President Félix tshilombo's call.

The of-19 pandemic that shakes the world continues to gain ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 116 new cases have been confirmed, including 112 in Kinshasa and 4 in Haut-Katanga for the only day of 23 May 2020 according to the newsletter of the technical secretary of the multisectoral response committee. Since the official statement of this pandemic in rd Congo on March 10th, 2141 cases have been confirmed, including 2140 confirmed and 1 likely. In addition, the Technical Secretariat reports that 5 new people have been healed from the-19, bringing the total healings to 317

At least 5 civilians killed, a burned vehicle and property looted in a tense ambush on the evening of Friday, 22 May 2020 by alleged ADF rebels at Byane-Mufutabangi, a village located about 4 kilometers of Ndalya on National Route number 4, in the territory of Irumu, Ituri province. According to John Mabelle president of the civil society of Ndalya who delivers the news to 7,. CD this Saturday, the attackers attacked the village around 17 p. m local time, in heavy rain and barricaded the road. On the spot, they burned a car leaving Komanda (Ituri) for the city of Beni (North Kivu) before killing civilians. A woman, alleged to have been captured by FARDC elements that intervened to limit the damage. " We cannot leave the region to leave space for the enemy, we are determined to accompany the FARDC elements as long as peace returns here. We call on the government to strengthen the military force in the city ", said a civil society actor. Just before this attack, rebels