The Congolese army on Tuesday clashed for a second day with suspected
Ugandan rebels blamed for recent massacres in the country's volatile
east, civil society and UN sources told AFP.
The battles broke out on Monday when troops attacked rebels who were
thought to be organising another possible assault on the large town of
Beni in the North Kivu province.
A member of the Beni region's civil society movement told AFP that
the latest clashes have killed one army officer and two rebels,
according to the the military.
Troops of the large UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO,
were participating in the fighting, a source with the force told AFP on
condition of anonymity. The UN soldiers, boosted by a tough Security Council mandate to take
the offensive against armed groups rife in the east, have engaged in
“other important (operations) carried out in parallel” with actions
alongside the national army, the source said.
Scores of civilians have been killed since the start of October in
vicious raids blamed on the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces and
National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU), who terrorised
parts of the resource-rich region for almost two decades.
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