Kinshasa, June 2nd, 2025 (CPA) – Opposition leader Martin Fayulu warned former president Joseph Kabila on Monday that ‘history will not forgive betrayals’, urging him to leave Goma, the martyred capital of North Kivu, occupied by the Rwandan army, in a message shared on social networks. ‘No reason, not even a strategic one, can justify collaboration with those who are tearing our country apart. I urge you to leave Goma, this martyred city now occupied with the complicity of enemy forces. History does not forgive betrayals, least of all those made to the homeland’, declared Martin Fayulu. ‘Mr Kabila (…) the way to redeem our past mistakes is through dialogue, not compromise’, he continued. Martin Fayulu also called on Corneille Nangaa, former President of the National Electoral Commission (INEC) and leader of the AFC terrorist group, allied with Rwanda, to stop being complicit in the massacres of Congolese. ‘Mr Nangaa, I implore you, stop being complicit in the massacres of our brothers and sisters; stop handing over our soil, our lives and our resources to foreign forces. The blood of the Congolese can no longer flow with your complicity; no ambition is worth the price of the suffering of an entire people’, Martin Fayulu hammered home. ‘I want to see you not for a favour, but for a direct discussion without pretense, without compromise, but out of patriotism, in order to find a dignified way out of this existential crisis’, said the Congolese opposition leader. In his message, Martin Fayulu appealed to the Congolese people to stand up together, to be determined, to refuse fate and to choose their homeland.
Tshisekedi responds favorably to Fayulu’s call for dialogue
Opposition leader Fayulu (standing), greeting President Tshisekedi (archive photo)
A few hours after the statement by opposition leader Martin Fayulu calling for a national dialogue in the face of the risk of ‘balkanization’ of the country, President Félix Tshisekedi accepted the outstretched hand of the opposition leader.
‘The President of the Republic salutes the patriotism and sense of commitment to national cohesion shown by Mr Martin Fayulu and affirms his willingness to meet him to save the Republic from the predation that threatens our institutions and territorial integrity’, wrote Tina Salama, spokeswoman for the Head of State, on his X account. In a video posted on social networks on Monday 2 June, Martin Fayulu described the current situation as one of the darkest periods in the history of the DRC. He warned of the imminent risk of balkanization of the country, due to insecurity and the activism of armed groups in the provinces of North and South Kivu. These regions are largely under the control of the Alliance Fleuve Congo/M23 rebel group, supported by Rwanda.