BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo—A female peacekeeper from Malawi was killed in an attack by an Islamist terrorists in eastern Congo’s North Kivu province on Monday morning, the U.N. and the Malawian government said. A local civil rights group said separately that fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist terrorist group with Ugandan origins, attacked the village of Kilia, around 11 miles southeast of Beni in the province, killing at least five people. It was not clear if that figure included the peacekeeper. “A peacekeeper was killed in an attack by alleged ADF in the Beni region,” said MONUSCO, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, which has deployed around 12,000 troops to contain violence by more than 120 armed groups in the east of the country. Chitenji Kamanga, 28, was killed when the U.N. base in the village of Kilia, was attacked at 1:30 p.m. local time, the Malawi Defense …
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