source: Reuters; Radio Okapi
actor1: Mayi Mayi Militia (Bakata Katanga)
actor2: Military Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (2019-)
location: Lubumbashi
notes: On 26 September 2020, around 200 Mayi-Mayi Bakata Katanga militiamen armed with firearms, machetes and arrows clashed with the FARDC and the police during an incursion by these rebels in the center of Lubumbashi city (Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga). Overall, 16 Mayi-Mayi were killed and many others injured by the state forces, who also captured 13 rebels and repelled the rest of fighters. 2 policemen were killed (decapitated) and 1 FARDC shot and killed. Reportedly, these Katanga pro-independence rebels tried to seize strategic public buildings despite the state's immediate response, whose troops reestablished order a few hours later.