Anonymous4 days ago
A Congolese military court sentenced former President Joseph Kabila to death in absentia in September 2025 for treason, war crimes, and collaboration with the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, capping a rapid political downfall for the man who ruled the DRC for 18 years. The prosecution, which stripped Kabila of presidential immunity and tried him without defense counsel, has drawn sharp criticism from Human Rights Watch and other observers who call it a political vendetta masking deeper failures of governance, while supporters of the case point to documented corruption, leaked financial records showing at least $138 million siphoned from state coffers, and Kabila's own visit to M23-held territory as evidence of betrayal.