DR Congo authorities suspend party of ex-President Kabila

Democratic Republic of Congo’s former President Joseph Kabila left the nation earlier than the final presidential election in 2023, based on a spokesman for his household. File
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The Democratic Republic of Congo authorities stated it has suspended the political party of former President Joseph Kabila, days after his properties had been raided by safety providers.

“This decision follows the overt activism” of Mr. Kabila, who was president for 18 years as much as 2019 and who stays head of his People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), the inside ministry stated in a press release dated Saturday (April 19, 2025).

PPRD actions “are suspended across all the national territory,” the assertion stated.

There was no rapid response from the party.

Current chief President Felix Tshisekedi has accused Mr. Kabila of getting ready “an insurrection” and backing an alliance that features the M23 armed group that’s combating authorities forces in japanese DR Congo.

Mr. Kabila (53) left the nation earlier than the final presidential election in 2023, based on a spokesman for his household.

But early April, in a message relayed by his employees, he stated he would return at an unspecified date as a result of the nation was “in peril”. There are unconfirmed options that he’ll arrive, or is already in, the japanese metropolis of Goma.

The household spokesman stated on Thursday (April 17, 2025) that safety providers mounted raids on Mr. Kabila’s important property, a farm east of the Kinshasa, and on a compound belonging to the household within the capital.

The inside Ministry assertion accused Mr. Kabila’s party of protecting “a guilty, or even complicit, silence” over “the Rwandan war of aggression”.

Kinshasa, U.N. consultants and several other worldwide powers have stated M23 is backed by Rwanda, which denies the cost.

The armed group is on the centre of a brand new surge in battle in japanese DR Congo, having taken the important thing cities of Goma and Bukavu.

The DR Congo ministry assertion stated Mr. Kabila has maintained an “ambiguous attitude” on the M23 rebel, which he “has never condemned”.

It criticised the “deliberate choice” of Mr. Kabila “to enter the country through the city of Goma, under the control of the enemy”.

A separate assertion from the nation’s Justice Ministry stated the chief prosecutor had been requested to begin authorized motion towards Mr. Kabila for “his direction participation” in M23.