Former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia for treason and war crimes by a military court in Kinshasa on Tuesday.
Kabila, 54, was president of the DRC from 2001 to 2018. He rose to power after his father, President Laurent-Desire Kabila, was assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. The younger Kabila clung to power beyond constitutional limits by delaying elections, dogged by allegations of corruption and incompetence, until massive protests forced him to step down in 2018. He was then declared to be a “senator for life,” retaining a voice in the government of his successor, current…
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