20 killed in DR Congo ethnic clashes: UN

‘Twenty people died in ethnic clashes last week in the troubled central Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The UN’s DR Congo mission, MONUSCO, said in a statement that the clashes took place on April 19 east of the Kasai capital, Tshikapa, between members of the Lulua-Luba and Chowe-Pende communities, killing 20 Chowe-Pende people.
The Chowe-Pende consider themselves indigenous to the Kasai region and accuse the Lulua-Luba from the neighboring Kasai region of supporting the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
The latter claim their authority from chief Kamwina Nsapu who was killed in the region in August 2016 by police after a rebellion against the Congolese authorities.’
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