{"id":55358,"date":"2025-08-25T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/afc-m23-demands-clarification-from-drc-government-on-kabila-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:47:55","slug":"afc-m23-demands-clarification-from-drc-government-on-kabila-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/afc-m23-demands-clarification-from-drc-government-on-kabila-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC\/M23 demands clarification from DRC government on Kabila trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking on August 24, the coalition\u2019s deputy coordinator, Bertrand Bisimwa, stated that Kinshasa must account for the charges brought against Kabila, who ruled the DRC from 2001 to 2019. <\/p>\n

Kabila is currently being tried before the country\u2019s High Military Court on accusations of treason, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The trial opened on July 25, 2025.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege that Kabila committed these crimes in connection with his supposed leadership role within the AFC\/M23 movement, despite his earlier public denial in March that he had no involvement with the group.<\/p>\n

During court proceedings on August 22, 2025, prosecutors requested the death penalty for Kabila. They also demanded the confiscation of assets valued at approximately $32 billion and sought an additional $21 billion in damages.<\/p>\n

Bisimwa has pointed out that the trial contradicts commitments recently signed between the government and AFC\/M23 under a Qatar-brokered agreement. <\/p>\n

The deal included a provision for the release of more than 700 detainees, comprising suspected members and affiliates of the coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kinshasa regime owes us explanations regarding this media-judicial lynching of President Joseph Kabila, who is being prosecuted and sentenced to death for his alleged support to the AFC\/M23, at a time when we had agreed that detainees prosecuted for the same charges should be released,\u201d Bisimwa said. <\/p>\n

\"AFC\/M23<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AFC\/M23 rebel coalition has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to provide clear explanations regarding the trial of former President Joseph Kabila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093074,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bertrand_bisimwa_yagaragaje_ko_izi_raporo_zigamije_guhanganisha_abahutu_n_abatutsi_batuye_muri_kivu-c05bb-2.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bertrand_bisimwa_yagaragaje_ko_izi_raporo_zigamije_guhanganisha_abahutu_n_abatutsi_batuye_muri_kivu-c05bb-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bertrand_bisimwa_yagaragaje_ko_izi_raporo_zigamije_guhanganisha_abahutu_n_abatutsi_batuye_muri_kivu-c05bb-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bertrand_bisimwa_yagaragaje_ko_izi_raporo_zigamije_guhanganisha_abahutu_n_abatutsi_batuye_muri_kivu-c05bb-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bertrand_bisimwa_yagaragaje_ko_izi_raporo_zigamije_guhanganisha_abahutu_n_abatutsi_batuye_muri_kivu-c05bb-2.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bertrand_bisimwa_yagaragaje_ko_izi_raporo_zigamije_guhanganisha_abahutu_n_abatutsi_batuye_muri_kivu-c05bb-2.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55358"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55358"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}