Joseph Kabila accuses Tshisekedi of supporting the FDLR
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Umuseke
Joseph Kabila, former president of the DRC, accuses Félix Tshisekedi’s government of cooperating with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and Wazalendo militias. He says this cooperation is helping prolong the war in eastern Congo, in an interview reported by Umuseke.
Former Democratic Republic of the Congo president Joseph Kabila accused Félix Tshisekedi’s government of supporting the FDLR, an armed group including figures linked to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He also accused the Congolese authorities of cooperating with the Wazalendo militias and violating the ceasefire agreement concluded in Doha, during an interview with CTGL conducted by Bojana Coulibaly and journalist Teddy Mazina, according to Umuseke.
Joseph Kabila said the DRC’s armed forces were cooperating with the FDLR, citing a UN experts’ report published in 2026. He said the issue should be resolved by Kinshasa, which he believes must acquire the means to fight the group rather than presenting the matter as an exclusively Rwandan problem.
The former president, who has become head of the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), said his government had worked with neighbouring countries and the UN against the FDLR, the ADF and other armed groups since 2006. He acknowledged that those operations had not achieved their objectives, while accusing the government that succeeded him of reversing this policy after 2019.
Joseph Kabila also called for the ideology of genocide to be fought, saying it remained present in the region since the exodus of figures linked to the 1994 genocide to the DRC and Tanzania. His accusations come after the public exchanges between the former president and Félix Tshisekedi, notably the head of state’s call to support the fight against the armed alliance led by Kabila on 28 October in his call to support the fight against Kabila’s armed alliance.
