At 2am on March 15, 2021, jihadists from the Allied Democratic Forces (also known as the Islamic State – Central Africa Province) attacked the town of Bulongo, Beni Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 15 people.

The Allied Democratic Forces, a Ugandan Islamist rebel group that is active in northeastern DRC, declared bay'ah to the Islamic State in 2019 and officially became the Islamic State's Central Africa Province.

[1] Since the merging to ISCAP, the group targeted civilians more often in deadly massacres throughout North Kivu.

[2] The town of Bulongo itself had been attacked several times by the ADF/ISCAP, killing over 70 people and kidnapping 40.

[5] The Kivu Security Tracker attributed the attack to the ADF, and the Islamic State claimed it later.