US hopes to secure access to critical minerals as DRC struggles with rebel groups for control of areas with reserves.

The politicians, who are under the banner of the Mouvement Sauvons la RDC, which Kabila co-founded, have described the sanctions as "untimely and counterproductive" in the context of the country's protracted crisis.

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Opposition politicians in DR Congo have called on the United States government to lift sanctions imposed on former Congolese President Joseph Kabila. The politicians, who are under the banner of the Mouvement Sauvons la RDC,