Opposition in Congo backs Katumbi’s candidacy
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Moses Katumbi
Opposition parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo formed a coalition that will back Moise Katumbi’s candidacy for president in elections scheduled for December.
Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the central African nation for 17 years and is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term.
Congo was supposed to hold elections in 2016, at the end of Kabila’s second term.
Katumbi has lived in self-imposed exile since May 2016, when he traveled to South Africa for medical treatment. In June that year, he was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison on what he says were politically motivated charges. Bloomberg Reports.