CODECO militiamen laid numerous attacks in DJUGU in the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday.

CODECO assailants from Walendu-Djatsi made an incursion early in the morning of this Wednesday July 08 at the center of Bunzenzele, Sindani-Akeso group in the Banyali-Kilo sector in Djugu territory, killing twenty civilians, sources testify. local.
"Today at 4 am, the assailants from Nyangarai started killing people on Butembo Avenue while going up. The soldiers were only informed when they heard shots being fired and they responded. More than 25 people were killed and wounded were transferred to Bunia via Walu, "reports Ezra Licey, head of the center.
The center of Bunzenzele is now emptied of its population who have moved to places deemed safe.
Local authorities are pleading for assistance from the security services to bury the dead, some of whom are still in homes and others scattered in the bush.
This assessment has not yet been confirmed by the armed forces of the DRC.

Again, alleged assailants of the CODECO militia was reported on the night of Tuesday to this Wednesday, July 08, 2020, in the Saikpa village of the Tambaki group, in the territory of Djugu.
These militiamen, carrying firearms, looted the cows. They managed to take 7 from a local resident who was threatened, an official source reports.
"These are assailants. They took away five cows. On the spot, they killed one and seriously injured another. This makes a total of 7 cows. The herdsman, responsible for the looted cows, managed to barely escape. He was not injured, "said Tibamwenda Tambaki, a local chief in the area.
However, some unofficial sources in the region speak of about sixty cows taken by the same attackers, in the Tambaki group, the morning of Wednesday.
The locality of Saikpa is almost 7 kilometers from Mandro, chief town of the chiefdom of Bahema Banywagi, about fifteen kilometers from the city of Bunia.
On Tuesday July 07, more than 90 other cows were taken away by attackers, in a peripheral entity. According to Chief Tambaki, the state must secure the inhabitants.

“There is the military presence here. But the problem, the villages are scattered, difficult to control everywhere at the same time. So we really have to do what is necessary to adequately ensure the safety of civilians, ”he argued.

Displaced people from the Drodro site who left for their fields in the Reta village were also attacked on Wednesday 08 July by attackers from the CODECO militia. It is in Buku group of the chiefdom of Bahema-Nord, in Djugu territory.
According to the president of Mazé civil society contacted by buniaactualite.com, assailants from the walendu-Pitsi sector surprised these displaced people, in full activity in the countryside. They shot one of them.
"A 23-year-old boy by the name of Banga was killed by militiamen while working in his cassava field. When the attackers fired, the rest of the displaced fled. These attackers left with the cassava and the hoe of the victim ”specifies Jean-vianney Ngesse.
The soldiers who arrived on the spot chased these militiamen before bringing the body of the victim to Mazé, a center of the chiefdom of the Bahema-Nord for his burial, adds our source.
The militiamen of the Cooperation for the Development of Congo (CODECO) have multiplied, these days, numerous attacks in Djugu.