DR Congo: Terrorists kill civilians at Church-run hospital in North Kivu

A terrorist attack on civilians took place on Friday night in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing around 20 people, many of them sick and confined to hospital beds. Despite a recent U.S.-mediated agreement between DRC and Rwanda, fighting with the M23 rebel group continues unabated in the eastern provinces, while the central government also faces the growing threat of Islamist terrorism. At around 10:00 PM local time on Friday, militants from the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces), aligned with the so-called Islamic State, attacked a diocesan health center run by the Sisters of the Presentation, massacred patients, and then set the entire facility ablaze.