Sesanga and Fayulu insist that the talks should include former President Joseph Kabila who has been sentenced to death by a Congolese military court for treason as well as Corneille Nangaa the head of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) – which works with the M23 to control most of North and South Kivu with strong Rwandan military backing – and representatives of the Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) itself (AC Vol 66 No 20 Peace talks falter as M23 tightens its grip on the Kivus Vol 67 No 12 Tshisekedi tests opinion with third-term kite Dispatches 11/5/26 Tshisekedi flies a third term kite & 1/9/26 Tshisekedi opens a constitutional Kabuki theatre)...

The ‘Congo is not for sale' activist coalition brought together 51 civil claimants with anti-corruption groups who say that about US$60 million was diverted through the scheme including payments to a United Arab Emirates-based company LRPS linked to former President Joseph Kabila...

Yet the precedent of former President Joseph Kabila's era is anything to go by western patience for conflict delaying elections is not infinite...

Former Katanga governor Moïse Katumbi who strongly opposed former President Joseph Kabila's efforts to change the constitution has recently voiced his opposition to a third term for Tshisekedi...

But the Catholic Church which helped block the third-term ambitions of former president Joseph Kabila is no longer the political force it was...

He insists his mission is to topple Tshisekedi and boosted his standing by recruiting the former Congo-K president Joseph Kabila to his ranks...

Adolphe Muzito – a former prime minister under Joseph Kabila and long-time protégé of Antoine Gizenga – returns as Minister of Budget...