Suspected Islamist fighters killed 14 people in in the village of Kukutama in eastern Congo on Friday. Many of the victims have been hacked to death or beheaded, according to local rights and civil society groups. The attack comes on top of a death toll of more than 100 since end of October, when the army started an operation to root out the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a jihadist group operating in the dense forests bordering Uganda. Violence in the region is hampering efforts to halt the spread of the Ebola virus.
