During a few weeks of a besieged state, the regular army recorded many victories over the armed groups at the base of the insecurity in the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu. The Kinshasa government confirmed this on Wednesday during a press conference in the capital. On the same platform three spokespersons. Patrick Muyaya, Minister of Communications, General Léon-Richard Kasonga from the Army and Colonel Mwanamputu from the National Police.
The three spokespersons reported on the operations carried out by the DRC’s armed forces with the aim of eradicating local and foreign armed groups. Intensive operations in northern Kivu yielded convincing results, according to General Léon-Richard Kasonga.
They made it possible to dismantle all the places occupied by the ADF generals. This was specified by the general, who also mentioned the destruction of a craft factory and the logistics of the ADF’s armed groups. The refugees were persecuted in Ituri, according to General Léon-Richard Kasonga.
“Those who had the opportunity to escape from our strikes went against Tshabi and Boga in Ituri,” explains General Leon Richard Kasonga. And so today, at the operational level in Ituri province, we have intensified operations against the ADF, against the CODECO armed group and also against the FPIC ”.
Among the elements of the captured Alliance of Democratic Forces are 14 foreigners. Among them are Rwandans, Ugandans, Tanzanians, Eritreans and Ethiopians.
Today, populations that are victims of ADF began to return to his village.
