Chief judge excludes Bemba from elections
kinshasa September 3, 2018 22:32The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo has definitely excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba as candidate for the presidential elections in December. Reason is his condemnation by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for bribery of witnesses and obstruction of justice. In June the ICC spoke to the former warlord surprisingly free of war crimes.