DR Congo armed groups killed 1,300 people in first half of 2020, says UN

DRC: More than 1,300 people were killed in the first half of 2020 by armed groups in DR Congo, three times more than in the same period in 2019, according to a report that was published yesterday by the United Nations.
the UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) said that Between January and June 2020, fighters of all armed groups were responsible for the summary executions or arbitrary killings of at least 1,315 people, including 267 women and 165 children,
That was more than three times the 416 such deaths recorded in the first half of 2019.
The surge is the result of a deterioration in the human rights situation in provinces where conflict is rife, particularly Ituri, South Kivu, Tanganyika and North Kivu, according to the UN agency.
Eastern DR Congo has been unstable for nearly three decades, its population terrorised by dozens of militia groups that are chiefly the legacy of two major wars.
Violence in the gold-mining region of Ituri has raged since December 2017.