{"id":33478,"date":"2026-05-01T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33478"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:23:22","slug":"us-sanctions-former-drc-president-kabila","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-sanctions-former-drc-president-kabila\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions former DRC President Kabila"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The United States (US) has sanctioned former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The US is accusing Kabila of supporting Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and contributing to instability in eastern DRC.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The US Department of the Treasury says Kabila provided financial backing to the M23 and its political military wing, the Congo River Alliance, in an effort to shape the region&#8217;s political landscape.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The group is blamed for intensifying violence that has killed thousands of civilians and triggered a large-scale displacement crisis.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33479,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-33478","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US has sanctioned former Democratic Republic of Congo President","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33480,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33478\/revisions\/33480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}