Drodro

Drodro is a refugee camp in Djugu territory, located in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[1] On July 1, 2003, a few months before the end of the Second Congo War, armed forces were responsible for the mass murder of 966 people in Drodro and the surrounding localities.

[2] In 2017, the ethnic Lendu priest Florent Dhunji died during his visit to Drodro Parish (which is mostly composed of the Hema people),[3] leading to an upsurge of ethnic tensions in the Ituri conflict as Lendus charged Hema abbots with murdering Dhunji.

[4] On March 1, 2018, ethnic conflict broke out again in Drodro, this time over land disputes.

[5] On November 21, 2021, under the cover of night, the Cooperative for Development of the Congo (CODECO) raided the settlement, leading to the massacre of numerous residents.