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Boys recount 'torment' at hands of armed rebels in DR Congo

A United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) peacekeeping truck drives on the Bunia-Drodro road in the Ituri Province, on December 6, 2025.[AFP]

Forcibly recruited into a rebel militia affiliated with the Islamic State group, two boys revealed the "torment" of living in its camps as members committed massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeast.

The two minors freed from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) gave AFP an unprecedented account of the shadowy group, notorious for its extreme brutality.

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