Rebels from Allied Democratic Forces attacked Samboko village in Beni territory, killing at least 20 people and taking hostages, according to a civil society group.
Killings in Ituri province were blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces, an insurgency group originally from Uganda that later gained a foothold in eastern DRC in the 1990s.
March 30 was supposed to mark end of withdrawal of "all armed groups" — around 120 — according to timetable adopted in mid-February by Community of East African States regional force.
Daesh-linked ADF rebels killed dozens of civilians using guns and machetes in several villages in North Kivu province, officials say.
Suspected Allied Democratic Forces militants accused of carrying out the overnight attack in the village of Makugwe, in the Beni area of North Kivu province.
The Daesh group claimed responsibility for the attack during a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern Congolese town of Kasindi.
At least five people were reported killed and 15 others injured in a bombing in the city of Kasindi that the army blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group.
Attacks by militias across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo leave over a dozen people dead since Friday, including six miners who were decapitated by CODECO group rebels, officials say.
Out of the 872 inmates, all but 49 had escaped Kakwangura central prison in the town of Mutembo, after armed men attacked the prison leaving at least two police dead, sources say.
Five bodies were brought to a hospital from a village west of Oicha in North Kivu while seven more arrived from another village to the west of the town.
Witnesses believe the attack was conducted by fighters associated with Daesh.
Latest violence comes amid tensions between DR Congo and Rwanda over M23, another rebel group.
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