Rebel commander Corneille Nangaa says 65 people wounded in blasts as DRC’s presidency blames ‘a foreign army’.

Hospital workers carry an injured man at Bukavu Provincial Hospital in Bukavu on February 27, 2025. Two explosions rocked a city in eastern DR Congo on February 27, 2025 after a meeting of the M23 attended by one of the armed group’s leaders Corneille Nangaa, AFP reporters saw. Bukavu is one of two key cities in the turbulent region seized in recent weeks by anti-government M23 fighters who UN experts say are backed by Rwandan forces. (Photo by AFP)
Hospital workers carry an injured man at Bukavu Provincial Hospital in Bukavu after two explosions rocked the city in the eastern DRC on February 27, 2025 [AFP]
Published On 27 Feb 2025
27 Feb 2025
Updated:
8 hours ago
At least 11 people have been killed and 65 wounded when explosions rocked the city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a rally for the M23 rebel group and their supporters, the leader of the rebel alliance says.

The DRC’s presidency, which says neighbouring Rwanda is backing the rebels, said in a post on X that “several” deaths occurred on Thursday and blamed “a foreign army illegally present on Congolese soil”.