Congo Political Crisis Escalates With Arrest Warrant for Katumbi
- Katumbi denies he used unauthorized foreign security forces
- Presidential hopeful hospitalized after tear-gassing at court
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government issued an arrest warrant for presidential hopeful Moise Katumbi on charges that he recruited mercenaries, escalating a political crisis in the country as it prepares for elections in six months.
“The public prosecutor has charged Mr. Katumbi and issued a provisional arrest warrant,” government spokesman Lambert Mende said Thursday by phone from the capital, Kinshasa. “He is now at the disposition of the judge who could detain him in prison or put him under house arrest, but he is no longer free.”