ADF fighters killed eight people during an incursion into the village of Gwado, less than 5 km west of Manguredjipa, on Wednesday around 10:00 AM. Some villagers were tied up and then shot in a barza (a type of open area), while farmers heading to their fields counted eight dead and two wounded.
This attack follows a previous incursion on Tuesday in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Manguredjipa, where assailants targeting a health center were spotted and pursued. According to authorities, the ADF retreated towards Lingitana before crossing the Manguredjipa-Bandulu road (PK 105 of Butembo) in the early afternoon.
According to intelligence collections from the area, Residents are denouncing the "negligence" of the security services, accusing them of failing to protect the villages of Utiyaba and Gwado. They fear that the attackers will use either the Gwado-Utiyaba-Fatua route, or the Gwado-Biakongo-Bangio-Bhuela route, or even the Masayi-Malewe route leading to Kambau, villages where life was beginning to return to normal after the ADF attack last year.
The Bapere Civil Society, headed by Samuel Kagheni, reported this assessment and called on the authorities to strengthen security in the region to prevent further tragedies.
However,despite today's attack the operation shujaa continues to hunt the terrorists,a ccording to sources close to the army in the operation, Yesterday the the army Pursued the ADF/MTM Islamist terrorists who were responsible for the recent attempted looting of the Malunguma Health Center, west of Mangurejipa, the FARDC-UPDF coalition freed two (2) hostages and recovered six (6) cows on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
Furthermore, during a reconnaissance and combat patrol near the Ituri River, joint units arrested ten (10) young men in Mambume, west of National Route 4. All were Muslim and from Oicha and Biakato.
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