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The topic opens with a fresh wave of lethal violence in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Le Monde reports that at least 31 people were killed within the space of a few days in attacks in Ituri province, the deadliest development recorded on this thread so far. The paper attributes the killings to the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and that, according to the same account, levies taxes on residents under threat of death. That combination of mass killing and coercive taxation frames the current state of the topic: an armed group exercising violent control over civilian populations in Ituri rather than a one-off raid. No further detail on the identity of the victims, the specific localities struck or any response by Congolese authorities is available from the reporting at hand, and the toll is described as a minimum figure that may yet change.
The Allied Democratic Forces are an armed group active in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, according to Le Monde. The group is described as imposing taxes on residents in the areas where it operates, enforcing those demands under threat of death. Its attacks in this thread are concentrated in Ituri, a province in the north-east of the country. This topic tracks the sequence of such attacks and their human toll; the details recorded here are limited to what has been reported by the cited source, and casualty figures are given as minimum counts.
قُتل ما لا يقل عن 31 شخصًا خلال أيام قليلة في هجمات وقعت في مقاطعة إيتوري بجمهورية الكونغو الديمقراطية، وفقًا لصحيفة لوموند. وتعزو الصحيفة العنف إلى تحالف القوى الديمقراطية، الجماعة التي بايعت تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية وتفرض ضرائب على السكان تحت التهديد بالقتل.