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DR Congo: Muslims murder at least nine people,
loot many homes, many more people are missing
JUN 9, 2023 11:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
The jihadis have expanded their operations. They aren’t getting any significant pushback from police or military forces.
At least 9 killed in eastern Congo’s latest extremist rebel attack
by Jean-Yves Kamale, Associated Press, June 2, 2023
KINSHASA, Congo — Extremist rebels in eastern Congo killed at least nine people with knives and guns, a civil society organization said Friday.
The attack happened Thursday evening on the Kyondo-Kyavinyonge road in North Kivu province, said Meleki Mulala the coordinator for the Congolese civil society group for the Ruwenzori sector. Civilians were taken from their homes before they were killed, and many homes were looted, he said.
The death toll is preliminary because some people are missing, Mulala said. He said members of the Allied Democratic Forces, a rebel organization believed to have ties to the Islamic State group, carried out the attack….
The group also extended its area of operations to Goma and into neighboring Ituri province….
Pastor Killed in Burkina Faso by Jihadists
Open Doors, June 1, 2023:
On May 25 seven people were killed, including a local pastor when jihadists attacked Molokadou village in northern Burkina Faso.
The village came under attack at around 4pm. One local church leader was able to share with Open Doors partners that “The terrorists encircled the village, shooting in the air to create panic. Then, they entered a compound where they killed two people. A third person who was there fled and got to the pastor’s compound. The jihadists followed him to the church leader’s compound… with no response, they went in and shot the young man and pastor dead, in front of his wife.”
Pastor Jonas Yaro (39) served the Apostolic Church in the village for eight years and leaves behind a wife and three children.
Molokadou village is situated about 60km from Bobo Dioulassou, along the Bobo-Dedougou Road.
Besides Pastor Yaro, one other victim has been confirmed as a Christian….
One UN peacekeeper killed and four seriously wounded in Mali attack
At least one United Nations peacekeeper was killed and four others seriously injured when their patrol was attacked in northern Mali on Friday, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said.
Issued on: 09/06/2023 - 16:03
File photo of a UN peacekeeper on patrol in the village of Ogossagou in Mali's Mopti Region
on November 5, 2021. © Amaury Hauchard, AFP
The incident took place near the town of Ber, in the region of Tombouctou – an area that has become a hotbed of jihadist activity over the past decade.
MINUSMA said on Twitter the patrol first encountered an improvised explosive device and was then hit with a direct fire attack.
It did not name perpetrators but said it was a "complex attack" and that updates on casualties would follow. Islamist militants, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State, have been waging an insurgency in northern Mali since they hijacked a Tuareg rebellion in 2012.
The violence has spread across the Sahel region under the Sahara and beyond despite international military interventions to help local troops fight back.
Thousands have been killed and over six million displaced by the fighting, according to the U.N. MINUSMA – the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali – currently has about 12,000 military personnel deployed in the country.
At least 303 MINUSMA personnel have been killed in hostile acts in Mali since the start of the mission in 2013, making it the deadliest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world.
(Reuters)
At least 9 dead in al-Shabaab attack on Somalia luxury hotel
By Simon Druker
resort hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, late Friday. Al-Shabaab militants were blamed for the attack.
Photo by Said Yusuf Warsame/EPA-EFE
June 10 (UPI) -- At least nine people are dead after what police are calling a terrorist attack at a luxury resort in Mogadishu, Somalia, late on Friday.
Six civilians and three police officers were killed and ten others were injured in the attack at the Pearl Beach Hotel, the official Somali National News Agency reported.
Authorities said all seven militants from the Islamist extremist group al-Shabaab involved in the attack were slain.
Witnesses said two men wearing suicide vests detonated explosive devices near the entrance of the resort where hundreds of people had gathered around at 7:55 p.m. local time on Friday, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
A seven-hour siege ensued as Somali security forces surrounded the site.
Officers said they were able to safely evacuate 84 people, including two children, from the hotel while the attack unfolded.
Last summer, Islamic militants targeted tourists at other hotels in the Somali capital. Twenty-one people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in August during a 30-hour siege at separate resorts in Mogadishu.
Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected last year and pledged a "total war" military campaign against al-Shabaab, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
The Somali Army is fighting with the African Union Transitional Mission against al-Shabaab militants, who are seeking to overthrow the government and control areas in the southern and central parts of the country.
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