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Clashes between groups have flared this month, and at least 195 people have been killed since December in attacks blamed on the CODECO militia and other armed groups.

Mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians have been discovered in northeastern Congo after a series of weekend attacks blamed on a local militia, the United Nations said Wednesday.

This article is about the discovery of at least 49 bodies in a mass grave in two villages in Ituri province, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, by the United Nations peacekeeping mission.

There was another attack by CODECO militia overnight in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), “the attack took place at the Plaine Savo camp for displaced people, nine kilometres east of Djugu. Seven people were reportedly killed and many others fled the site,” said a UN Spokesperson. UNIFEED

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians have been discovered in northeastern Congo after a series of weekend attacks

The ADF terrorists, most of whom are believed to be of Ugandan origin, operate in North Kivu and Ituri, eastern DRC

At least 39 other people were injured, according to provisional figures from the Armed Forces.

The attack carried out by IS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) targeted a baptism ceremony.

At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded on Sunday in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo claimed by Islamic State jihadi

Over 120 armed groups roam mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, many of them a legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century