DRC: Zoé Kabila, a brother of the ex-president, summoned to the ANR

Zoé Kabila, the brother of the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Illustration image).

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The news is marked by the travel ban of Zoé Kabila, younger brother of former President Joseph Kabila.

His passport was briefly confiscated.

The former governor of Tanganyika province did not comment on this incident which is taking place in a context marked by the arrest for a week of Francois Beya, Felix Tshisekedi's special adviser on security.

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa,

The scene takes place overnight from Wednesday to Thursday at Ndjili airport in Kinshasa.

Zoé Kabila is about to take a scheduled flight with a South African airline when the General Directorate of Migration forbids her to board.

He does not protest.

According to witnesses, everything happened peacefully.

The order, says the DGM, would have come from the general administrator of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR), and to recover her passport Zoé Kabila had to go to the premises of the ANR, where he went discussed face-to-face, from Thursday, with the number one of the intelligence services.

Nothing has leaked so far from their exchanges, but the relatives of Zoé Kabila affirm that the discussions did not relate to the recent arrest of François Beya, the special adviser in matters of security of Félix Tshisekedi, contrary to the rumors which flourish on the Internet.

Zoé Kabila is said to have told the general administrator of the National Intelligence Agency that he was traveling to Johannesburg to visit his wife and children who have been there for almost a month.

He himself is also enrolled in a master's program in South Africa.

For the time being, no public comment on this affair, neither from the principal concerned, nor from his relatives.

In any case, this is the second time that the former governor has been worried since the end of the FCC-Cach coalition.

At the end of October 2020, the security services broke into one of his properties in downtown Kinshasa, trying to drive out the occupants.

In a context of rupture with the current power, many of the former dignitaries of the Kabila era say they do not understand what the current leaders are preparing.

Members of the Kabila family keep a low profile, they are not very active in current political debates.

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