Joint bulletin – Making justice work in the Roger Lumbala trial

On 15 December 2025, the Paris cour d’assises found former politician and military leader Roger Lumbala guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity, committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five weeks of hearings in the Lumbala trial featured 65 testimonies (including from 20+ Congolese survivors), 30 witnesses (including United Nations investigators, journalists […] The post…