France, Jan. 26 -- One year after the attack by the AFC-M23 group and its Rwandan allies, no one can say for certain how many people were killed.

Humanitarian groups say several hundred people died in the fighting. The Congolese Red Cross and the ICRC alone buried more than 900 bodies following the clashes.

Furaha lost several family members on 27 and 28 January 2025.

"The soldiers were firing randomly into houses that weren't locked," she tells RFI. "They came into my plot and shot my husband. A young neighbour and my son tried to help us, they were hit."

Both her husband and the young neighbour were killed. "My husband left me with nine children.It's hard to feed them and send them to school now."

Furaha's house was destroyed in th...