August 2022 North Kivu attacks

The ADF is a Ugandan jihadist group formed in the 1990s, but spread to eastern Congo in the 2010s.^[3] In 2019, the group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and became the Islamic State - Central Africa Province, and a subsequent uptick in civilian attacks occurred.^[3] In the summer of 2022, the ADF ramped up attacks in North Kivu, with attacks in Otomabere and Kandoyi killing dozens. with On August 11-12, the ADF freed 800 inmates at a prison in Butembo, killing two policemen in the process.^[4]

Villagers from Nord-Kivu claimed that ISCAP had crossed over from neighboring Ituri province in search of arable land, and attacked six villages in North Kivu around the night of August 25.^[5] On August 27, three civilians were killed by ISCAP in a locality of Bashu chiefdom, according to a local chief.^[6] At 5 am that same day in Kavasewa, a nearby village, ISCAP attacked a military outpost before assaulting the village, burning down dozens of houses and bludgeoning multiple women to death.^[6] On August 29, an ISCAP attack west of Oicha killed two.

Attacks ramped up again on August 30, with ISCAP pillaging the villages of Alima and Laliya.^[7] Fourteen villagers were killed in these attacks. The Congolese army also claimed to have secured control over the area after the militants left.^[7] On the same day, ISCAP fighters assaulted the hamlet of Beu-Manyama, killing five villagers. International crisis groups, local hospitals, and local human rights groups assessed that the total death toll was over fifty people killed by ISCAP in six days.^[4][5]