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DR Congo: The Bemba Earthquake
The ICC’s acquittal of Jean-Pierre Bemba comes at a critical point in DR Congo elections. President Kabila and his opponents will have to recalibrate strategies ahead of Bemba’s likely return.
- ICG
Outside powers should keep pressing Kabila to stand down and allow opposition candidates to…
- What’s new?
On 8 June Jean-Pierre Bemba, a charismatic Congolese leader and fierce rival of President Joseph Kabila, was acquitted by the International Criminal Court’s appeals chamber of a 2016 war crimes conviction.
His likely re-entry into Congolese politics will shake up the campaign ahead of elections slated for…
- Why does it matter?
Bemba has the profile to contest the…