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A former militia leader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes and mass rape, a decision hailed by the United Nations as a blow against the “impunity” of armed groups in the country.
Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was convicted of “murder, rape, sexual slavery, enlisting children under the age of 15” a decade ago, a military court ruled.
Sheka was one of the leaders of a militia group called the Nduma Defense of Congo (NDC), which operated in the troubled eastern province of North Kivu.
Dozens of armed groups continue to operate in eastern Congo decades after the end of a 1998-2003 war that claimed millions of lives.
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