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The United Nations says mass graves containing 49 bodies have been discovered in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, attributing the killings to an ethnic militia group.

Forty-two bodies, including 12 women and 6 children, were found buried in the village of Nyamamba, in Ituri Province. The bodies of 7 men were found in the village of Mbogi, about 30km east of the provincial capital Bunia, the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, said in a tweet.

The Peacekeeping Mission says, “MONUSCO strongly condemns these barbaric and cowardly killings attributed to The Cooperative for the Development of Congo .”

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I once read a book from am Black American journalist who lived in DRC for while, he says that Congo will never recover, there will never be peace and stability, because previous governments signed mining and other contracts to westerns companies, hurts because im from DRC.

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