Goma

He had left the country, um, but he returned, you know, after, after, you know, leaving the presidency and, and falling out with the current president, Félix Tshisekedi.

Uh, he returned to the country last year and, uh, returned to the city of Goma, which is controlled by M23.

Uh, it's in, it's the capital of North Kivu Province in the eastern DRC.

Um, i-i- he's been convicted by a Congolese military court since then, convicted in absentia, uh, of terrorism ch-- or sorry, not terrorism, treason.

Now he's looking how to enter back in Congo.

And you must understand, in the time where he flee country, coming back, he went through Rwanda and went through, uh, Goma to join the M23.

But to us, it was not like a new thing.

Kabila is a father of M23, which everything is being cooked in Uganda as, uh, uh, president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni is the architecture, and Rwanda is the executor.

This is what I want to tell you.

We've been reading this, we've been saying this.

Even Minister Muando Nzangi, he works with Kabila and he spoke about this that Kabila is the one who's Rwanda using for M23, Tsheombe, RDC Goma, all those names because they're just changing name and then when they, they did alliance between M23 and Force Congo, it was the same thing.

They're changing names.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, former Congolese President Joseph Kabila announced on Monday that he's forming a new opposition group, the Front for the Re-Foundation of the Nation, that includes the M23 militant group now controlling parts of the eastern DRC.

Kabila has been based in the M23-controlled city of Goma since returning to the country last year, and Congolese authorities convicted him in absentia and sentenced him to death for various crimes, including treason, last September.

This new group apparently supplants the Congo River Alliance, which previously served as the political wing for M23 and a number of other militant groups.

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Um, in fact, his supporters have already said that he will stay on beyond his term that is supposed to end in two years' time.

Um, and we see that M23, they've already, they hold Goma, um, they hold part of the airports there.

They also control key border crossings with Rwanda and, um, and Uganda.

And the reality is that the Kinshasa government have been unable to push them back.

In further field, former DRC President Joseph Kabila has joined forces with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group to head a new outfit.

The tie-up was presented yesterday at a joint press conference at Kabila's residence in Goma, a major city in eastern DRC that the M23 has controlled since January last year.

The new group was presented as a politico-military outfit that's aiming to, quote, "Put an end to tyranny by any means, including force." It'll be headed by Kabila, and rebel leaders will serve as deputies.

Kabila was condemned to death in absentia a year ago for complicity with the M23 rebels.

Kabila will lead a new political military movement that controls swathes of Congo's east.

He's in Goma, a major city controlled by the rebels since 2025.

A court in Kinshasa had condemned Kabila to death by absentia for alleged links to M23.

It comes as a ceasefire failed to end fighting between the rebels and Kinshasa.