On the night between May 30 and 31, 2021, jihadists from the Allied Democratic Forces (also known as Islamic State – Central Africa Province or ISCAP) attacked the towns of Boga and Tchabi, killing a total of fifty-seven civilians and injuring forty-seven others.

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) was founded in Uganda in the 1990s, gaining prominence as an Islamist rebel group and conducting deadly attacks on civilians in the early 2010s.

[1] The group pledged bay'ah to the Islamic State in 2019 and began carrying out its first attacks under the ISCAP moniker months later.

[1] Boga and Tchabi are two towns located ten kilometers apart along the border between North Kivu and Ituri Province, where the ADF is active.

[4] Médecins Sans Frontières warned Congolese and United Nations authorities in April 2020 about the chances of an ADF attack in Boga and Tchabi due to few defenses in the towns.

[2][15] Some estimates by local civil society members and Gracien Iracan, a Congolese MP, assessed the death toll at above sixty killed.

[24][4] MONUSCO and UN officials visited Tchabi and Boga between June 16 and 17, strengthening security measures in the area.

[25] Peacekeepers from Nepal, South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania all were dispatched to hunt down the ADF nearby and protect the villages.