militia

17 Civilians Killed By Rebel Group In DR Congo

September 10, 2022 6:56 am

Seventeen people died yesterday during a militia attack on a village in northeastern DR Congo, a local civil society head announced.

Gunmen from the feared CODECO militia stormed Mbidjo in Ituri province’s Djugu territory during the morning, said Jules Uwechi, chairman of the village’s civil society group.

‘They opened fire, set houses ablaze, and pillaged the property of villagers… I myself narrowly escaped,’ Uwechi said in the provincial capital Bunia.

‘When we went back we found 17 people had been killed — seven women, eight men, and two children.’

Eleven of the bodies had been buried in a mass …

Civil War: Militia Leader Sentenced To 20yrs In Prison

December 31, 2019 2:35 pm

Charles Ble-Goude, an ally of former Cote d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in Abidjan, for his role in the civil war.

The civil war followed the 2010 presidential election, his lawyers said.

Ble-Goude headed the notorious Young Patriots street militia during Gbagbo’s presidency.

Gbagbo and Ble-Goude were acquitted in January by the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, of charges of crimes against humanity during the violence, in which some 3,000 people were killed.

But Ivorian prosecutors this month brought charges against Ble-Goude, who has remained in

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Ebonyi Denies Using Bakassi Militia To Attack IPOB

November 26, 2019 3:52 am

Ebonyi State government yesterday denied a report that Governor Dave Umahi floated a group called ‘Bakassi Boys’ to attack the Federal Government-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The Biafra Restoration Voice (TBRV) had alleged on social media that Umahi had commissioned the said security group.“Governor David Umahi has just commissioned a group of men called Bakassi Boys in Ebonyi to attack IPOB members,” the grouped alleged.Denying the allegation, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Stanley Emegha, said the state had no other internal security outfit except the Neighbourhood Watch, describing the information about Bakassi Boys as strange.