[3] The ADF is a Ugandan Islamist group who in 1996 began their insurgency, including a massacre in 1998 in Kabarole District in the Western Region, Uganda.

[3] In North Kivu, in the northeast of the DRC, in January 2023, the ADF carried out massacres in Kasindi and Makugwe.

During the night of 8–9 March 2023, the ADF used machetes to carry out a massacre in Mukondi, a village in North Kivu.

[3] Initially, the provincial governor of Kivu region Carly Nsanzu Kasivita gave a death toll of 36, while local sources put it at 44.

[7] Mukondi chief Deogratias Kasereka claimed that per modus operandi of the ADF, no guns were used in the attack.