[2] It was formed shortly after the group's leader, Gédéon Kyungu Mutanga, escaped from prison in September 2011 where he was serving a sentence for crimes against humanity committed by his supporters between 2002 and 2006 in central Katanga.

[1] In August 2013, the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, rescued 82 children, some as young as eight, who had been forcibly recruited by the militia as child soldiers.

[4] Kata Katanga violence declined after 2013 and, in 2015, Kyungu announced that he would create a political party to stand in the anticipated elections in 2017.

[7] His party is the Movement of African Revolutionary Independentists (Mouvement des Indépendantistes Révolutionnaires Africains, MIRA).

[12] Over the course of 2024, Mai-Mai Kata Katanga organized several raids,[13][14][15] with the largest attack taking place in December and targeting four villages in Moba Territory, causing 4,000 people to flee their homes.