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Sh*ckwaves In Africa: Ex-DR Congo President Joseph Kabila Sentenced To Death
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sentenced former President Joseph Kabila to death in absentia, convicting him of treason and alleged collaboration with the M23 rebel group.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
The verdict, delivered on Tuesday in Kinshasa, came without the 54-year-old ex-leader or any legal representatives present at the proceedings.
Prosecutors accused Kabila of conspiring with Rwanda-backed M23 fighters, who control large swathes of eastern DRC. Military prosecutor General Lucien Rene Likulia alleged that Kabila plotted to overthrow President Félix Tshisekedi in partnership with Rwanda, coordinating alongside Corneille Nangaa, the former electoral commission chief during the disputed 2018 election.
Likulia further charged Kabila with complicity in homicide, torture, and rape attributed to M23’s violent campaign, insisting that “the death penalty is the only just punishment for the crimes committed.”
Kabila’s political camp condemned the judgment as a “political show trial,” claiming it was engineered to silence the former president and suppress opposition voices.
Analysts suggest the ruling is as much political as judicial, aimed at stopping Kabila—whose current whereabouts remain uncertain—from mobilizing dissent within the country. He left the DRC in 2023 but was sighted briefly in Goma earlier this year, where he reportedly met with religious leaders in the presence of M23 spokesman Lawrence Kanyuka, fueling tensions in Kinshasa.
President Tshisekedi has repeatedly accused Kabila of masterminding M23’s resurgence and destabilizing the east, while Kabila has dismissed Tshisekedi’s administration as dictatorial.
Although Rwanda denies arming M23, UN investigators have reported significant Rwandan military involvement in the group’s offensives.
Kabila, who assumed office in 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, ruled the DRC until 2019. His nearly two decades in power were marked by persistent conflict, fragile peace accords, and widespread corruption allegations.
The DRC lifted its moratorium on capital punishment in 2023, but no executions have yet been carried out since the decision.
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