France welcomes UN sanctions targeting Kabila’s FRN
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Actualité.cd and Le Potentiel
France endorses the UN designation of the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), a movement led by former president Joseph Kabila, according to Actualité.cd. France thus joins Washington and London, which have taken comparable decisions.
On 12 November, the Security Council Sanctions Committee amended the entry for the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) to list the FRN among the other names by which the movement is known. In a statement published on Saturday 14 November 2026, the spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pascal Confavreux, welcomed this update under the 1533 sanctions regime, which concerns the DR Congo.
The FRN operates alongside the AFC/M23 coalition. The United Kingdom followed suit the same day by linking the FRN to the AFC/M23 in its own sanctions, after the United States, which had already recognised this link.
France reaffirms its commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the DR Congo and recalls that all parties must implement Security Council resolution 2773. The ministry also calls on the belligerents to cease fighting and conclude an effective and verifiable ceasefire, by implementing the Washington Accord, the Doha Framework Agreement and the African Union’s mediation.
