Latest violence between Lulua-Luba and Chow-Pende communities extends eight months of bloodshed.
At least 20 people were killed in ethnic clashes last week in Democratic Republic of Congo ’s troubled Kasai region, according to the United Nations.
The UN’s DR Congo mission said in a statement on Wednesday that the clashes took place in the central region, east of the Kasai capital, Tshikapa.
Violence between members of the Lulua-Luba and Chowe-Pende communities escalated, and saw at least 20 members of the Chowe-Pende killed, the agency said.
The Chowe-Pende accuse the Lulua-Luba of supporting the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
The Kamwina Nsapu militia claim its authority from chief Kamwina Nsapu, who was killed in the region in August 2016 by police after a rebellion against the Congolese authorities.
The militia has been fighting security forces largely to avenge the chief’s death.
