Former DRC president Kabila talks in Guma M23: Reports Conflict news

Joseph Kabila is visiting the eastern city of Juma, which the rebels seized, after he was stripped of immunity.

Former President Joseph Kabila returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a few days after Immunity for him Amid accusations, the armed rebels helped the fighting in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to Reuters and Agence France -Presse.

Kabila, on Thursday, was visiting the eastern city GumThe M23 militia, backed by Rwanda, seized, along with many other areas in the east of the country rich in resource earlier this year.

A team of journalists saw Agence France Presse that Kabila met local religious figures in the presence of the M23 spokesman Lawrence Canuka, without providing a statement.

Quoted by three unknown sources near Kabila, Reuters also said that the former president had conversations with the local residents in Goma.

The visit comes despite the fact that the former president faces the possibility of a betrayal trial for his alleged support for M23.

Earlier this month, the Senate voted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to raise the immunity of Capella, which paves the way for him to sue him.

The former president, who was in the exile he imposed since 2023, denies these allegations and criticized the accusations against him as “arbitrary decisions with disturbing lifting.”

On Thursday, a member of the Capella footnote told AFP that although there was no official alliance between his party and M23, both of whom participated in the “same goal” in ending President Felix Chesikdi’s rule.

The United Nations and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo say that Rwanda supported M23 with weapons and forces – an accusation that the neighboring country deny.

Renewed violence raised fears of igniting a Full conflictLike the wars of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the late 1990s, which included many African countries, which resulted in the killing of millions of people.

The current fighting has already succeeded about 700,000 people this year, according to the United Nations.

On Tuesday, Amnesty International accused M23 of violations against civilians in areas under its control, “including torture, murder and enforced disappearance.”

“These actions violate international humanitarian law and may rise to the level of war crimes.” The group said In a statement.

M23 says its goal is to protect ethnic minorities from the government in Kinshasa.