Massacres in Sud-Kivu: the Nobel Prize winner Mukwege angry after execution of civilians

Kinshasa, November 26^th, 2025 (CPA). – The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Denis Mukwege, has condemned the summary executions carried out on the night of November 23^rd to 24^th by M23 terrorists in Katana, Sud-Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to his account X consulted on Wednesday by CPA.  ‎ »I am disgusted by the summary executions in Sud-Kivu, which remind increasingly the reminiscent of the massacres documented in the United Nations Mapping Report (1993-2003). More than 22 people have been brutally shot dead in Irhambi Katana, in Kabare territory, on the night of November 23^rd to 24^th, in retaliation for clashes between local self-defence groups and the M23/RDF armed group, » it is read.  According to the same source, these young men, first arrested and then have been executed by M23 elements, adding that at the same time, girls, boys, mothers and fathers are subjected to daily physical abuse in broad daylight; some succumb to their injuries in what appears to be a new slave kingdom in Africa, controlled by Kigali. ‎The same source has also reported that the Chahoboka-Katana health centre has been attacked by M23 elements, killing one patient and two nurses at around 10 p.m., even though attacking a medical facility constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime. ‘If the world has decided to remain silent, Africa must not remain indifferent to the atrocities committed and the slave trade in eastern DRC over the past three decades,’ has concluded the Nobel Peace Prize winner. ‎Several international and national organisations, including MONUSCO and the Pamoja kwa Amani Coalition, have expressed their deep concern about the ‘massacres and summary executions’ of civilians that have taken place on Sunday night and Monday morning, when people have been arrested and summarily executed by AFC/M23 coalition rebels. Dr Denis Mukwege has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, jointly with Nadia Murad. The prize has been awarded to him for his efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and for his exceptional work in the service of victims, notably through the Panzi Hospital he has founded.