On the evening of 7 November, Sister Denise Kahambo Murahirwa was killed by armed men in uniform who attacked the monastery of Our Lady of Light in Muresha, located 20 kilometres from the town of Bukavu, in the territory of Kabare.
In October, the gravity of the situation in Bukavu forced Archbishop Francois Xavier Rusengo of Bukavu to leave the work of the Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops and return to his Archdiocese.