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📅 Published: August 26, 2025

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He cited a litany of charges against Kabila, including homicide, torture, rape, and organising an insurrection.

In addition to the death penalty, the prosecution is seeking a 20-year sentence for Kabila’s alleged condoning of war crimes and 15 years for conspiracy, though General Likulia did not elaborate on these additional charges.

The charges stem from Kabila’s alleged support for the M23 rebel group, which has been accused of forcibly occupying the city of Goma in January before agreeing to a ceasefire with the government in July.

The charge sheet also accuses Kabila of plotting to overthrow current President Felix Tshisekedi.

Kabila, who has been outside the DRC for two years, has denounced the trial, dismissing the courts as “an instrument of oppression”.

Ferdinand Kambere, Kabila’s political party secretary, echoed this sentiment, telling Reuters that the trial is “an act of relentlessness and persecution against a member of the opposition. ”
Henry-Pacifique Mayala, a researcher and coordinator of the Kivu Security Tracker, suggested the prosecution’s demands seemed to be “more of a settling of scores session than a quest for truth. ”
Kabila served as President of the DRC for nearly two decades, from 2001 to 2019.

He assumed office at the age of 29 following the assassination of his father, then-President Laurent Kabila.

After his term ended in 2017, he extended his mandate by delaying elections for two years.

He handed power to President Félix Tshisekedi following a disputed election in 2019, but they later fell out.

In May, Congo’s senate voted to lift Kabila’s immunity from prosecution.

He had been living outside the country for two years, but arrived in the rebel-held city of Goma, in eastern DR Congo, from self-imposed exile in South Africa in May.

Kabila’s successor, President Félix Tshisekedi, has accused him of being the brains behind the rebels.

The ex-president has rejected the case as “arbitrary” and said the courts were being used as an “instrument of oppression”.

In a now-deleted YouTube video released in May, Kabila lashed out at the Congolese government calling it a “dictatorship”, and said there was a “decline of democracy” in the country. 🔗

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