{"id":15579,"date":"2025-11-19T05:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/fresh-violent-attacks-break-out-in-eastern-drc-days-after-peace-framework-signing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:45","slug":"fresh-violent-attacks-break-out-in-eastern-drc-days-after-peace-framework-signing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fresh-violent-attacks-break-out-in-eastern-drc-days-after-peace-framework-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh violent attacks break out in\u00a0 eastern DRC days after peace \u00a0framework signing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Authorities say the rebels have seized a strategic village in South Kivu province that has routes connecting to different parts of eastern Congo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Congolese army says the M23 rebels carried out a surprise attack on their positions in the territory of Shabunda over the weekend. After hours of fighting, the rebels took control of the village of Maimingi in the country&#8217;s east. Violent clashes are still going on between the warring parties in the mineral-rich region of South Kivu province.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The clashes come two days after representatives of the DRC government and the rebels signed a framework for peace in Qatar. The framework is supposed to establish a ceasefire, prisoner exchanges and the restoration of state authority in the rebel-held areas among 5 other key points. Earlier this year, the M23 rebels captured the eastern DRC city of Goma and Bukavu.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The DRC government and United Nations experts accused Rwanda of deploying more than 6 000 soldiers to fight alongside the rebels to seize the cities. But Rwanda denied the accusation and blamed the DRC for supporting a Hutu militia known as FDLR that seeks to destablise its government. The United States and Qatar are trying to secure a peace deal but their efforts have not been successful so far. Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced since the fighting began in late 2021.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15580,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-15579","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Fresh fighting has broken out in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) just days after representatives of the government and the M23 rebels signed a framework for peace in the Qatari capital of Doha","published_date":"2025-11-19 00:00:00","news_description":"Fresh fighting has broken out in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) just days after representatives of the government and the M23 rebels signed a framework for peace in the Qatari capital of Doha","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15579\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}