Kinshasa, Congo: At least 27 people were killed in overnight attacks on villages near the eastern Congolese town of Beni, a local official said on Thursday.
Ewanakawa Nyonyi, spokesman for the mayor of Beni, blamed the attack on Ugandan ADF-NALU rebels that operate alongside a string of other local and foreign armed groups in Democratic Republic of Congo's mineral-rich eastern border zone.