At least two people were injured on June 27 when a homemade bomb exploded in a church in Beni city in North Kivu Province. “This (tragedy) further motivates the FARDC to intensify the hunt for those terrorists in disarray until the very end,” the ministry said. The explosion occurred at around 6am local time (0400 GMT), the city’s police chief Narcisse Muteba Kashale said. Experts from the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the DRC who rushed to the site after the explosion said it was a homemade bomb targeting Christians. Faced with the growing insecurity in the region, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi decided at the end of April to declare a state of siege in North Kivu and the neighbouring Ituri province.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 29, 2021 09:56 UTC