Dr. Congo The former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila led a new military-political coalition - the Front for the Renewal of the Nation (FRN). It included groups from the Congo River Alliance (AFC), including the extremist M23 movement, which controls vast areas in the east of the country and is supported by Rwanda. The FRN aims to become "a platform for joint action where all Congolese, united, will begin to liberate their country," the front said. That is, the goal of overthrowing the current government in Kinshasa, led by Felix Tshishkadi, who will personally lead his country's delegation at the third Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on October 28-29, 2026, was announced in plain text. Kabila appeared at a press conference in Goma, a central city in eastern DRC that has been under the control of M23 since January 2025. The former president rarely appears in public and usually keeps information about his movements completely secret. He himself did not make any statements at that press conference. Joseph Kabila served as head of state from 2001 (after the assassination of his father, DRC President Laurent-Désira Kabila) until 2019. His mother is Tutsi, and the vast majority of M23 fighters belong to this ethnic group. The leadership of neighboring Rwanda has been controlled by the Tutsi since the end of the Hutu-Tutsi massacre in 1994. The announcement of Kabila's unification with Rwanda-backed M23 came amid growing political instability in the DRC. Tshishkadi's second five-year term ends in 2028, and the country's constitution limits the presidency to two five-year terms. For several months now, the ruling majority has been preparing public opinion for a possible amendment of the Basic Law to pave the way for Tishkedi to a third term.

Dr. Congo The former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila led a new military-political coalition - the Front for the Renewal of the Nation (FRN). It included groups from the Congo River Alliance (AFC), including the extremist M23 movement, which controls vast areas in the east of the country and is supported by Rwanda. The FRN aims to become "a platform for joint action where all Congolese, united, will begin to liberate their country," the front said. That is, the goal of overthrowing the current government in Kinshasa, led by Felix Tshishkadi, who will personally lead his country's delegation at the third Russia-Africa summit in Moscow on October 28-29, 2026, was announced in plain text. Kabila appeared at a press conference in Goma, a central city in eastern DRC that has been under the control of M23 since January 2025. The former president rarely appears in public and usually keeps information about his movements completely secret. He himself did not make any statements at that press conference. Joseph Kabila served as head of state from 2001 (after the assassination of his father, DRC President Laurent-Désira Kabila) until 2019. His mother is Tutsi, and the vast majority of M23 fighters belong to this ethnic group. The leadership of neighboring Rwanda has been controlled by the Tutsi since the end of the Hutu-Tutsi massacre in 1994. The announcement of Kabila's unification with Rwanda-backed M23 came amid growing political instability in the DRC. Tshishkadi's second five-year term ends in 2028, and the country's constitution limits the presidency to two five-year terms. For several months now, the ruling majority has been preparing public opinion for a possible amendment of the Basic Law to pave the way for Tishkedi to a third term.