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Series of ADF terror attacks increase as civilians argue UPDF and FARDC to strengthen their joint operation.
Reports from July 1st to July 20th. Civil society in Lubero (North Kivu) reported on Thursday, July 4, the burning of several homes and a health center during an attack attributed to ADF rebels in Masinzi. According to this civil administration, the attackers attacked this village in the absence of the population who had already abandoned it for more than a week, following attacks by the same ADF in the area. The administrator of the Lubero territory, Colonel Alain Kiwewa, confirmed this information, but without giving further details. The incursion of these rebels occurred on Wednesday, July 3, just three days after two people died following the attack on a humanitarian convoy in the village of Kavunano, Lubero territory. According to local sources, this humanitarian convoy was traveling from Lubero to Beni, via Butembo before falling into the hands of young people who have not yet been identified. Up to ten people were killed on Wednesday, July 17, in a double attack attributed...
demonstration of young people demanding weapons and military training to fight ADF and M23/RDF terrorists. Kinshasa reacted, General Evan, northern front sector commander, accompanied by a strong delegation including deputies from Beni went to the site. “We must now secure ourselves against terrorists, more than 10 years of massacres is already too much” declared a demonstrator.
The Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya, suspends for a period of 12 months the importation of beers and soft drinks throughout the territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The measure emanates from its order temporarily suspending the importation of beers and soft drinks, signed on June 26 and made public this Thursday, July 18, 2024. The Minister of Foreign Trade warns that products imported in violation of the provisions of this order will be returned or destroyed at the offender's expense. However, it promises exemptions to economic operators in the event of a supply need in areas where consumers have difficult access to local products. Another decree published that same Thursday also prohibits the importation, for a period of 12 months, of gray cements and clinkers, this time in the West and South-East part of the DRC. However, the two orders do not affect any imports carried out in accordance with trade agreements. The Secretary General of Trade, the General Directorate of Customs and Excise (DGDA), the Congolese Control Office (OCC), the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) and the Directorate of the National Border Hygiene Program (PNHF) a...