🇨🇩 Intelligence Brief | ISIS Claims Deadly Church Attack in Eastern DRC, Exposes Regional Fragility
Ujasusi Blog’s Great Lakes Region Monitoring Team |🗓️ 30 July 2025 |🕛 0110 BST
🧠 Executive Summary
A brutal church attack in Komanda, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on 27 July 2025, has left at least 43 people dead. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), through its affiliate the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), claimed responsibility. The United Nations mission MONUSCO confirmed the casualties and warned of further humanitarian deterioration in the region. The assault underscores the persistent threat of jihadist violence in the mineral-rich but unstable eastern DRC, where multiple armed groups—including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels—vie for control.