67 FARDC soldiers sentenced to death in Walikale, North Kivu
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Kivu Morning Post
The garrison military court of Goma, sitting in Walikale, has sentenced 67 soldiers of the Armed Forces of the DR Congo to death for cowardice, mutiny and refusal to obey orders. The verdict, delivered after a trial late on 6 November 2026, also acquitted four soldiers, including a captain, according to Major Dieudonné Kasereka of the 34th Military Region.
At least sixty-seven soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) have been sentenced to death by the garrison military court of Goma, sitting in Walikale, North Kivu. The trial took place on Friday 6 November 2026, late in the evening, in Walikale-centre, according to Major Dieudonné Kasereka, communications officer of the 34th Military Region. The soldiers were prosecuted for cowardice, military mutiny and refusal to obey orders.
In the same trial, a sergeant was sentenced to ten years' principal penal servitude, and four other soldiers were acquitted, including a captain, head of intelligence of the 3415th Regiment. These soldiers had been arrested on 20 October 2026 in the village of Ngora, for offences committed in the village of Ntonto, in the Wanianga sector, Walikale territory.
The figure exceeds that of our article 66 FARDC soldiers sentenced to death in Walikale, published on 7 November.
