Former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila, was on Tuesday sentenced to death by a high military court on charges of treason, war crimes and other serious offences, in connection with the ongoing conflict in the country’s east.

Kabila was sentenced in absentia for alleged collaboration with the Rwanda-backed rebel group, M23, which launched lightning offensives in January this year and seized swaths of territory, including the strategic eastern hub of Goma. The group’s advance resulted in more than 3,000 deaths and the displacement of close to a million people.

The sentencing comes as the DRC government and representatives of the M23 rebels continue to engage in slow-moving peace negotiations, which have been mediated by Qatar since July. There are co

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