Kabila comes home after years in exile

A former president of Congo has returned to the Central African country after years in self-imposed exile, according to one of his advisers, days after the country’s Senate accused him of treason.

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The Senate said the former president, Joseph Kabila, had supported a militia that has captured swathes of Congolese territory this year — an allegation that could lead to his prosecution.

Yet he remains beyond the government's reach, even after returning to his country. The Senate voted to prosecute Mr Kabila, who led Congo for 18 years, in Kinshasa, the capital. For his re-entry into Congo, Kabila chose Goma, a city 1,600 kilometres to the east, where the government is powerless.