THE DEVASTATING

militia wearing Bana Mura’s signature red bandanas.

Mimi fled with younger kids Elysee Bashala, five, and Jean Mbombo, three. She said: “I have not told my two children their sisters and their father were killed. It is too difficult.

“We heard that the militia were in a neighbouring village killing people. The same night they came and cut off my husband’s head. I saw it with my own eyes.

“My two eldest children were also killed. I picked up the two youngest and ran.”

Mimi spent six months fighting for survival in the bush. Elysee is desperately malnourished. She is

Starving lad, five, fled as militia struck They fled to safety after husband and two daughters were beheaded Age seven, lost infected arm and may lose his leg