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Paris star lawyer Antoine Vey defends ex-warlord Roger Lumbala

The French lawyer Antoine Vey, a long-time associate of France's current justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti, undertook an extended tour of Africa in May. Since late April, he has also been representing the Congolese former warlord Roger Lumbala. [...]

Published on 17/06/2021 at 06:00 GMT

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Roger Lumbala in 2013, then a member of M23.

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Despite his reelection, Patrice Talon's main opponent remains behind bars on vague suspicions of "financing terrorism". But he will have to reckon with Madougou's powerful supporters among whom are two of the region's sitting presidents as well as oligarch Mahamadou Bonkoungou and lawyer Antoine Vey, a former associate of French justice minister Dupond-Moretti.

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The Beninese opposition leader Reckya Madougou.

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France waits for asylum process to play out before arresting DRC war crimes suspect

Congolese former warlord Roger Lumbala had been living in France since the late 1990s but was only detained on war crimes charges at the end of December after losing his last bid for asylum.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

DRC
Paris star lawyer Antoine Vey defends ex-warlord Roger Lumbala

In Focus | DRC
Former warlord Roger Lumbala's dangerous liaisons with Tshisekedi clan

East Africa, Southern Africa
Richard Griffiths follows in Qatar's footsteps to strengthen Arent Fox's African network

West Africa
Reckya Madougou rallies legal, political and business elite for her release

DRC
France waits for asylum process to play out before arresting DRC war crimes suspect