On July 22, 2021, jihadists from the Allied Democratic Forces (also known as Islamic State – Central Africa Province) ambushed a convoy of civilians returning from a market along a highway between Mayi-Moya and Chani-chani, Beni Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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] The massacre occurred along the road linking Mayi-Moya and Chani-chani in Beni Territory, and at the time of the attack a convoy of civilians were returning from the market.

[2] The ambush occurred in the town of Mayi-Moya (also spelled Maimoya), and began when the attackers launched an RPG that immobilized the vehicle.