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2025 date set for Congolese warlord Roger Lumbala trial in France

Roger Lumbala on 8 January 2013 in Kampala. © Peter Busomoke/AFP

The leader of the RCD-N political-military movement is charged with complicity in crimes against humanity in the DRC in the early 2000s. He has been in pre-trial detention in France for nearly five years. [...]

Published on 07/11/2024 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

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