Two Improvised explosive devices exploded on Sunday, June 27 in the city of Beni. The first exploded in a church in Beni early in the morning and the second, in the evening, Malumalu junction in Mabakanga area in Beni. The attack which is the first of its kind by the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) in DRC injured two women and killed one person.
The first bomb was exploded at the Emmanuel parish, located in the Butsili district, in the commune of Mulekera, in the city of Beni. Ngudi Abdallah a Ugandan national, died after his suicide vest prematurely detonated at a busy intersection wounding two people. Abdallah is a very active and high-ranking member of ISCAP with intelligence revealing that he is a specialist in recruitment and the training of the terrorists in Madina before deployment to Mwalika.
S.I. analysts have in recent weeks maintained that while ISCAP in DRC seeks to garner international headlines, they have been establishing a bomb-making factory and that is geared at propelling the outfit’s threat even high. The recent IED attacks albeit with little human and property damage, are possibly the preliminary test-run for the first batch of suicide bombers increasing the threat by ISCAP in DRC.
Targeting Christians and crowded places like markets is in line with most ISIS provinces’ attacks across the globe and as such CT actors in DRC ought to address the group as a terror organization and not as a rebel group to ensure that the group’s agenda and attention-grabbing headlines do not attract more attacks as well as members from East and Great Lakes regions of Africa
