[2] ADF militants attacked Mwenda at 7 p.m. on January 4, and went door-to-door bludgeoning residents to death with machetes and shooting them as well.

[2] At the same time as the attack on Mwenda, ADF fighters killed nine people in a nearby village.

Two days after the attack on Mwenda, thirty civilians were killed in the nearby village of Loselose.

[5] On January 12, ADF jihadists ambushed Congolese forces in Mwenda, sparking a battle that left one soldier killed and three others injured.

[7] On January 7, UN Secretary General António Guterres condemned the massacres at Tingwe, Mwenda, and Loselose.