Abroad since the second half of January 2024, Joseph Kabila actively participated in the tributes for the Namibian president, Dr Hage Geingob, who passed away from cancer at the age of 82.

During the national funeral this Saturday, February 24, at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek, the former Congolese head of state was spotted in the stands alongside the former Tanzanian president, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, but also with the current Tanzanian president, Madame Samia Suluhu, and the president of the African Union Commission, Mr. Moussa Faki.

Long before this phase of the ceremony, the senator for life, Joseph Kabila, had supported the widow Geingob, Madame Monica Geingos, at the residence of the late president.

"H.E. Joseph Kabila, former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pays tribute to Mrs Monica Geingos, spouse of the late President H.E. Dr Hage Geingob," the Namibian Presidency had written in English through its account X.

Well before this comforting visit, Joseph Kabila had conveyed, through his Office of the Honorary President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a message of condolences to the bereaved family and the Namibian people. In this text, the fourth Congolese president in history had expressed his "shock and regrets" following the death of the man with whom, in his capacity as head of state of the DRC, he had "worked closely" on strengthening the bilateral relations between the two brotherly states. He had described the political experience of the patriarch Hage Geingob as a source of inspiration for future African generations.

Recalling the actions of the late Namibian President, Joseph Kabila also mentioned his "commitment to the development of his country, the well-being of his people, to regional integration within SADC, his pan-Africanist ideal, and in South-South cooperation as well as his mediations in armed conflicts and political crises around the world."

Dido Nsapu