Kinshasa: Militiamen from the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nande ethnic group have killed 25 civilians in the country's east, local officials said. "In total 25 people were killed by the Mai-Mai Mazembe in and around the village of Kyaghala," Africa News quoted the local representative of the governor of North Kivu province as saying. "All of these people were Hutu civilians," he said. The Mai-Mai are a so-called "self-defense" militia composed of members of DRC's Nande, Hunde and Kobo communities. They stand in opposition to rivals from the Nyaturu group, which also represents ethnic Hutus.
