Open-air prison and confinement of FARDC officers, distrust of his own political aides: Félix Tshisekedi in total panic
Félix Tshisekedi has built his domestic policy and his diplomacy on corruption, lies and manipulation. He does not hesitate to spend millions of dollars buying off international organisations so that they publish reports favourable to his narrative, and to find pretexts and justifications for his incompetence.
Ever since the creation of the Front pour la refondation de la Nation (Front for the Refoundation of the Nation) under the leadership of President Joseph Kabila, Kinshasa has been gripped by panic. Several members of the Tshisekedi clan are seeking to leave the country, while others are scrambling to hide their assets abroad.
A senior army officer, contacted by Daraja-Média, says the vast majority of the FARDC have opted for the return of President Joseph Kabila to the helm of the DRC, and that Félix Tshisekedi and his entourage are well aware of it, hence the panic.
In his panic, President Tshisekedi has convened a meeting of the Supreme Defence Council, at which controversial measures were adopted, in the knowledge that the army is no longer behind him.
Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita has suspended "until further notice" all requests for permission to leave the country by general and senior officers of the FARDC.
In a letter dated 15 October 2026 and addressed to the chief of the general staff, he states that permissions already granted but not yet used "have lapsed.
The measure follows instructions from Félix Tshisekedi, commander-in-chief of the FARDC, at the Supreme Defence Council held on 14 October at the African Union City.
A copy of the document was sent, among others, to the Military Office of the Head of State, to military intelligence and to the Directorate-General of Migration. The decision comes just days after the founding in Goma of the Front pour la refondation de la Nation, led by Joseph Kabila.
In a separate memo, Félix Tshisekedi's chief of staff has barred members of the presidential cabinet from contacting the Belgian embassy in the DRC, following a series of raids carried out by Belgian police at several residences linked to the Tshisekedi clan in Brussels.
The raids have enabled Belgian prosecutors to uncover the scale of the money laundering carried out by the Tshisekedi family, which is implicated in the plunder of Katanga's mineral resources, a region it has turned into a veritable colony.
Our colleagues at the renowned American newspaper The New York Times have just revealed a transfer of more than 17 million US dollars from the Congolese public treasury, allegedly intended to bribe people close to President Donald Trump in order to secure slanderous sanctions against Rwanda and push their false narrative.
“Félix Tshisekedi has built his domestic policy and his diplomacy on corruption, lies and manipulation. He does not hesitate to spend millions of dollars buying off international organisations so that they publish reports favourable to his narrative, and to find pretexts and justifications for his incompetence.”
“Time is the second name of God, and the truth's best ally. Apart from his tribal clan, the vast majority of the Congolese people and of the defence and security forces want, and hope for, the return to power of President Joseph Kabila Kabange. They believe he alone is capable of pulling the DRC out of the abyss into which Félix Tshisekedi has plunged it.”
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