New Year began in chaos and mourning for residents of Katanga village in the Mangurujipa area of Lubero Territory, North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As families gathered to welcome 2026, armed fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) carried out a deadly nighttime incursion, killing at least 15 people on Thursday, Jan. 1, in the Bapere Sector. Allied with the global Islamic State movement, the ADF is among the most dangerous terrorist groups in the DRC.