A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced former President Joseph Kabila to death in absentia after convicting him of multiple crimes.
The court’s presiding judge, General Joseph Motumbo Katalayi, announced that Kabila was found guilty of “treason, crimes against humanity, murder, sexual assault, torture, rebellion, and war crimes.”
Kabila, who ruled the country for nearly two decades before stepping down amid bloody protests, spends most of his time in South Africa.
He was last seen publicly in May in the rebel-held city of Goma.
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