Ten Killed as fresh clashes erupt in DR Congo. Former President Kabila’s aide abducted at midnight
About ten people have been killed following fresh outbreaks of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Clashes were reported between the coalition of the Congo River Alliance and March 23 rebel forces fighting against the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and their supporters, the Wazalendo militia.
The fighting which erupted from Sunday, May 25, 2025 has already claimed lives in the Bwito chiefdom, in Rutshuru territory in North Kivu Province of Eastern DR Congo.
According to local sources, the provisional death toll currently stands at nine and several wounded after the new wave of fighting.
These new clashes have since caused further displacement of locals who had only recently returned to the area and are now forced to move to Bambo urban area which is overwhelmed by the number of displaced people fleeing from the violence.
The resumption of these hostilities occurs at the time when reports of the possible return of former DRC President, Joseph Kabila, were circulating around Goma City, the capital of North Kivu.
In yet another development, the former member of the ruling Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party, Kovo-Félix Ingila Bokondo has reportedly been abducted by a gang of people believed to be state security agencies.
Bokondo who recently joined former President Joseph Kabila’s Common Front for Congo (FCC) party, was kidnapped and taken to an unknown destination in the early hours of Monday, 26th May 2025 and his whereabouts are still not known.
According to his wife, Bokondo was seized by a squadron of heavily armed men in military regalia while others in civil uniform claimed to have been from the security wing of the Presidency of the Republic of Congo.
The state security officers broke into Bokondo’s Mimosa neighbourhood residence of Ngaliema Commune around 2 hours after midnight.
He was whisked away in a state-owned Mercedes Benz vehicle commonly known as ‘Kabasele.’
The traumatized wide of Bokondo is worried about her husband’s physical condition, because the men who kidnapped him had badly beaten the politician.
It is being reported that, members of Kabila’s FCC party are being targeted by the Tshisekedi regime that are desperate to extract confidential information about the former republican president following his return to DR Congo through Goma in North Kivu region.