Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo - U.S., EU Should Expand Targeted Sanctions

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Brussels — The United States and European Union should expand targeted sanctions on President Joseph Kabila's family members and financial associates benefitting from unlawful activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, seven international and Congolese human rights organizations said today. The sanctions should target those involved in serious corruption, misuse of government funds, money laundering, or fraud in order to quash peaceful dissent, improperly delay elections, or otherwise maintain Kabila's rule beyond the constitution's two-term limit.

The International Contact Group for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, which includes the US, the EU, and the United Nations, will meet on October 12, 2017, in The Hague to discuss Congo's political impasse and serious humanitarian and security concerns.

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