{"id":120455,"date":"2026-02-24T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/afc-m23-spokesperson-lt-col-willy-ngoma-killed"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:47:43","slug":"afc-m23-spokesperson-lt-col-willy-ngoma-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/afc-m23-spokesperson-lt-col-willy-ngoma-killed","title":{"rendered":"AFC M23 Spokesperson Lt Col Willy Ngoma Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>AFC\/M23 military spokesperson Lt. Col Willy Ngoma was killed in a drone attack by the Congolese army coalition on Tuesday, February 24, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Reports about the attack emerged a few hours after rebel spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka posted on X that Kinshasa had once again violated the ceasefire and \u201cunleashed a total war across all front lines.\u201d According to Kanyuka, on Tuesday, at precisely 07:00, government coalition forces \u201claunched savage and deliberate attacks against densely populated areas\u201d of Kitendebwa, Kashihe, and Kiduveri, in the territory of Kalehe.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThese criminal attacks, still ongoing, unequivocally demonstrate the Kinshasa regime&#8217;s intent to sow terror, chaos, and death among civilian populations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few hours earlier, in another post on X, Kanyuka had said that since 2:43 a.m., drones of the coalition forces of the Kinshasa regime indiscriminately bombed the town of Rubaya, \u201cspreading terror and massacring innocent civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis barbaric act constitutes a crime against humanity as well as a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. AFC\/M23 military spokesperson Lt. Col Willy Ngoma was killed in a drone attack by the Congolese army coalition on Tuesday, February 24, according to sources. Reports about the attack emerged a few hours after rebel spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka posted on X that Kinshasa had once again violated the ceasefire and \u201cunleashed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":120454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[6999,2542,758,6318],"class_list":["post-120455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-afc-m23","tag-dr-congo","tag-rwanda","tag-willy-ngoma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFC M23 Spokesperson Lt Col Willy Ngoma Killed - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AFC\/M23 military spokesperson Lt. 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