{"id":56449,"date":"2025-12-02T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drc-forces-kill-civilians-in-kamanyola-leaving-many-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:20:01","slug":"drc-forces-kill-civilians-in-kamanyola-leaving-many-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drc-forces-kill-civilians-in-kamanyola-leaving-many-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC forces kill civilians in Kamanyola, leaving many injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesperson for AFC\/M23, Lawrence Kanyuka, announced on the afternoon of December 2, 2025, that the five injured included one man, one woman, and three children.<\/p>\n<p>Kamanyola is located in the Walungu territory in the South Kivu province and has been under the control of AFC\/M23 fighters since February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Fierce fighting occurred in areas not far from Kamanyola, such as Katogota and Luvungi in the Uvira territory. These clashes, which started in the early morning, pitted AFC\/M23 fighters against the DRC military, supported by Wazalendo, FDLR, and Burundian forces.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Kamanyola reported that before the fighting started, they saw hundreds of soldiers with tanks and heavy weapons moving to set up defense in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>These residents, along with those from other areas like Katogota and Luvungi, said that the fighting has prevented them from carrying out their daily activities due to its intensity.<\/p>\n<p>In Bukavu, a city controlled by AFC\/M23 since February, residents also reported hearing gunfire, suggesting that fighting was taking place there as well.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing battles between AFC\/M23 and the coalition of DRC government forces present a major challenge for the government of Qatar. Not long ago, Qatar brokered an agreement between the two sides for a ceasefire, hoping it would lead to productive peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, mentioned in mid-November that it was extremely difficult to bring together sides that continue to fight, but that their country would continue to work towards achieving peace.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98557\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/coa.jpg\" alt=\"The AFC\/M23 rebel coalition, which opposes the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has announced that the country&#039;s army and its allied groups fired shells at the Kamanyola center, killing three civilians and injuring five others.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFC\/M23 rebel coalition, which opposes the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has announced that the country&#8217;s army and its allied groups fired shells at the Kamanyola center, killing three civilians and injuring five others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000098558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56449","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":2000098558,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/coa.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/coa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/coa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/coa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/coa.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/coa.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56449","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=56449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000098558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56449"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56449"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}