Brutal clashes between communities over farmland in central DR Congo earlier this month left 11 people dead, almost 10,000 displaced and nearly a thousand homes torched, a local charity said Wednesday.
The renewed violence in the vast Central African country’s Kasai comes after the region saw thousands killed during a bloody 2016-17 rebellion.
Pierre Mulumba Mpoyi, the head of the Catholic charity Caritas in Kasai-Oriental Province’s capital Mbuji-Mayi, said the latest clashes “broke out on 5 September and continued for three days”.
“The provisional toll is 11 dead, seven seriously wounded,” he told AFP.
The charity has identified 924 homes that were torched, he said, adding that the dead and wounded came from all the communities.
The fighting saw the communities of Bena Kabuya and Bena Mwembia clash with the Bena Nshimba over land for farming.
Brutal clashes between communities over farmland in central DR Congo earlier this month left 11 people dead, almost 10,000 displaced and nearly a thousand homes torched, a local charity said Wednesday.
The renewed violence in the vast Central African country’s Kasai comes after the region saw thousands killed during a bloody 2016-17 rebellion.
Pierre Mulumba Mpoyi, the head of the Catholic charity Caritas in Kasai-Oriental Province’s capital Mbuji-Mayi, said the latest clashes “broke out on 5 September and continued for three days”.
“The provisional toll is 11 dead, seven seriously wounded,” he told AFP.
The charity has identified 924 homes that were torched, he said, adding that the dead and wounded came from all the communities.
The fighting saw the communities of Bena Kabuya and Bena Mwembia clash with the Bena Nshimba over land for farming.
