Joseph Kabila: DR Congo bans ex-president's PPRD party over alleged M23 links

Congo suspends former president Kabila's political party

(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo suspended former President Joseph Kabila's political party and ordered his assets seized over accusations of supporting Rwandan-backed rebels in the east, the government said. Read full story

Joseph Kabila: DR Congo bans ex-president's PPRD party over alleged M23 links

Joseph Kabila has reportedly returned to the country after spending two years in South Africa.

DR Congo suspends Kabila's party amid allegations of insurrection and M23 support

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended Joseph Kabila's political party, PPRD, accusing him of backing the M23 armed group. Kabila's properties were raided, and legal action is being pursued.

The Congolese authorities have suspended the activities of the party of former President Joseph Kabila, accused of keeping an "complicit silence" in front of the armed group M23 supported by Rwanda, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has been learned from government sources. ...

Declaring the ex-president's "proven activism" alongside the M23 rebels and their Rwandan supporters, the Congolese government announced the suspension of its party, the seizure of its property and the initiation of legal proceedings.

DR Congo authorities suspend party of ex-president Kabila

The Democratic Republic of Congo government said it has suspended the political party of former president Joseph Kabila, days after his properties were raided by security services. “This decision follows the overt activism” of Kabila, who was president for 18 years up to 2019 and who remains head of his People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), the interior ministry said in a statement dated Saturday. PPRD activities “are suspended…