More than 100 people arrested in security operations in Lubumbashi

Police and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrested more than 100 people during operations on Thursday and Friday in several neighborhoods of Lubumbashi, in Haut-Katanga. In Musumba, 57 people were detained, and security forces seized machetes, an axe, pliers, two plastic revolvers and containers of prohibited alcohol. Another 52 young people were arrested in different parts of the city on suspicion of spreading terror and panic. Police said those detained were handed over to the justice system.