In the third photo, these radical Islamist rebels claim to have captured a Congolese policeman, whom they filmed before killing him. The second image shows the rebels strutting through the village, to the helpless gaze of the local population. One of the rebels stops a vehicle on the road.
The newspaper reports that these events took place last week near the village of Kamangora in Ituri. I personally conducted an intelligence survey and found no village with that name in this part of the country. However, recent ADF attacks occurred in Mayuwano near Bango in the Mambasa territory of Ituri and in Manguredjipa in the Lubero territory of North Kivu(as I wrote earlier).
* The truth is that the village is Kamagolo. It is found in the chiefdom of Basili, in the territory of Irumu. The ADF killed a police officer and burned a vehicle the previous week, a user told me via a phone call. Through my Open source intelligence survey, found articles from various local media outlets reporting on the attack in Kamagolo, 45 kilometers from Komanda, on October 25th, which included a police officer killed and a vehicle carrying embers burned. I added the image of the burned vehicle to this post. It's not possible to match the photo of the burned vehicle (PHOTO1) with the one stopped by a rebel (PHOTO2) because the latter is obscured by the Arabic text in the Al Naba newspaper clipping. However, judging by the vehicle's frame, it appears to be the same model.
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