Violence linked to the ADF then went quiet in the early 2000s, before escalating again in multiple massacres starting in 2014 ...

But further north in Beni, cocoa, whose prices have soared on the world market in the last two years, also stokes the violence. Massacres committed by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF ...

The Congolese army's fight against the ADF started in 2016, when government troops went deep into the forest of the Beni territory, where the village of Cantine is located, to hunt down ADF rebels ...