Terrorist groups continued their rampage of death and destruction through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2025, increasingly targeting children as weapons for war and abuse. Militia groups numbering in the dozens have battled for decades to gain control of the DRC. Of the militias, perhaps the most well-established are the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamic-affiliated group, and M23, terrorists motivated by political domination. They are notorious for kidnapping children from their villages and using them as child soldiers, laborers, and sexual slaves. After they are abducted, the children are brought to militia base camps.