{"id":55257,"date":"2025-08-16T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nine-killed-in-confrontation-between-drc-forces-and-wazalendo-militia\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T14:44:40","slug":"nine-killed-in-confrontation-between-drc-forces-and-wazalendo-militia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nine-killed-in-confrontation-between-drc-forces-and-wazalendo-militia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine killed in confrontation between DRC forces and Wazalendo militia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The confrontation erupted on August 14, 2025, in the Tukolote area of Kindu city, Maniema province, following an incident in which the son of Amani Useni Josu\u00e9, also known as Saddam, the Wazalendo commander, was assaulted by security personnel on duty.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Gbe, spokesperson for military operations in eastern DRC, stated that among the dead were five of Saddam\u2019s fighters, two soldiers, and two police officers, while eight others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes prompted Maniema Governor Mussa Kabwankubi to place the Tukolote area under a curfew from 2:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-92707\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg\" alt=\"The confrontation erupted on August 14, 2025, in Kindu city. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people have been killed in violent clashes between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), local police, and members of the Wazalendo armed group, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000092708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000092708,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/tokol-2-a597e.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000092708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55257"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55257"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}