Accused President Kabila joins the opposition to ‘save’ Dr Congo from disaster

asrar_kash October 16, 2025

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Accused President Kabila joins the opposition to ‘save’ Dr Congo from disaster

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila announced the movement to “Save” his country, after a meeting with other opposition leaders in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

The meeting, held on Tuesday and Wednesday, determined that Conlly Conngose oppose the “tyranny” of President Félix Tshusedi, according to a document seen by the BBC.

Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya dismissed it as a “non-meeting” event, and a meeting of “pets and guilt”. Kenya’s foreign ministry did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.

Kabila was recently convicted and sentenced to prison on his way home for war crimes and treason. He denied the charges which he said were “out of mind” but did not appear in court to defend himself.

Since May, his whereabouts have not been known until earlier this week when pictures of him in Nairobi were all over social media.

The meeting in Nairobi included former Congolese Prime Minister Dr. Augustin Matata Poyo, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for fraud in May.

The participants warned that Dr. Congo was facing a deep crisis due to the government’s rejection of integrated dialogue and poor economic management.

They criticized Tshisekedi’s failure to implement policies to address urgent public needs, despite full control of government power.

“From every corner and crevice of Congo, let’s come together and take daily actions to save the DR Congo. All the news of action,” promises the statements of the victory, “is impressive in the victory of the leaders of the 12 opposing groups and the people’s communities.

They also blamed “the thoughtless arrest of political leaders… [and] All the wrong judgments have been given by the courts and harshly to the opposition leaders and critics of the government.

They vowed to launch an offensive offensive to raise awareness of the international community on DR CONGO’s Frisis.

The Congolese government has previously expressed concern about Kenya’s handling of the opposition linked to the M23 rebels, who hold large parts of Eastern Congo, forming a political row.

In 2023, opposition figure Corneille Nangaa announced the formation of the Aliamalince Alliance to aid Congo in Nairobi. The group includes opposition figures and M23.

Kabila ruled Dr Congo from 2001 until 2019, after succeeding his father Laurent, who was shot dead in 2001.

Kabila painted Tshisede in the 2019 general election, but they later fell and Kabila went into exile in earnest in 2023.

Tshiserdi accused Kabila of being the mastermind behind the M23 rebel group in Mkhathini UChroni and the Sebetites stripped him of his legal restraint, revealing the way he was prosecuted in court in the past few weeks.

In April this year, the former president said he wanted to help find a solution to the deadly conflict in the east and arrived in the city of M23 held the following month. He had not been seen in public since then until this week.

The meeting in Nairobi came as the Congolese government signed an agreement with the M23 in Doha to set up a monitoring mechanism for its suspension.

Both sides accused the other of violating the agreement.