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How region's courts are weaponised to silence critics

DRC President Joseph Kabila delivers remarks to the media at the US Department of State August 4, 2014. [Photo/AFP]

Ex-Congo President Joseph Kabila finds himself fleeing from a country he was born and grew up in, that he once led, invested in and subsequently handed over to his successor, Felix Tshisekedi.

His life is now on the line after the country’s military court tried and sentenced him to death in absentia.

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