The Islamic State has announced that it has created its own "province" in central Africa

The Islamic State Group (ISIS) has stated that it has established a "province" at the center of Africasaid Thursday an organization that monitors jihadist websites.

The Intelligence Group SITE noted that it was the first time that ISIS mentioned this call "Central African province of the Islamic State"The extremist group made this statement through a statement in which he stated that his fighters killed three soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo e they hurt five others during an attack in Beni, in the east of the country, near the border with Uganda.

The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, he said recently that the Islamic State is a threat to your country and that his government will join the fight against extremists. The president accused the militia, the democratic allied forces, of allowing the infiltration of extremists.

The east of the country is home to several rebel groups fighting for control of the region, rich in minerals.

Rita Katz, director of the SITE, said on Twitter: "ISIS is far from being defeated." As can be seen in the latest SITE report, the group carried out attacks in 10 countries over a seven-day period (April 10-16), including multiple suicide operations.

The Islamic State claims its first attack in Congo

The jihadist group he claimed for the first time An attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country already severely punished by the violence of dozens of armed groups and an epidemic of Ebola that remains uncontrolled, reported Friday local media.

The attack was an operation against a police station Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (known by the French acronym Fardc) in the Kamango region, in the north-east of the country and near the border with Uganda, as reported Friday by the Congolese newspaper Kinshasa Times.

The statement that the attack on the part of the Islamic State was confirmed following information released Thursday night by the news agency QAMA, affiliated with jihadists.

The Congolese press identifies the operation of ISIS with a happened last Tuesday in which three soldiers died and that it was attributed to Ugandan rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

The announcement made by ISIS would confirm the growing suspicions of the presence of international jihadist terrorist networks in the DRC and their possible links with the ADFan armed group frequently attacks civilians in this part of the country.