UDPS Plans 2 May March for Joseph Kabila Sanctions
UDPS/Tshisekedi announced a peaceful march in Kinshasa on 2 May 2026 to support U.S. sanctions against joseph kabila. The party said the procession will begin at Boulevard Triomphal at 9:30 a.m. and end with a memorandum for the U.S. embassy in Kinshasa at about 11:00 a.m.
The move follows the measures announced on 30 April by the U.S. administration led by Donald Trump. UDPS/Tshisekedi said it wants to mobilize its members and national opinion around what it called a major decision tied to the security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kinshasa march route
The party set Friday 1 May at 14:00 for a moral talk at its national headquarters in Limete, a step it placed before the public march. The route itself is precise: Boulevard Triomphal first, then the U.S. embassy, where the memorandum of thanks is expected to be handed over.
That schedule gives the party a public sequence rather than a single rally. A reader in Kinshasa can see where the march starts, when the memorandum is due, and which institution will receive it.
Trump sanctions on Joseph Kabila
UDPS/Tshisekedi said the sanctions target Joseph Kabila because the party accuses him of being involved in the persistence of insecurity in the east of the country. The former president denounced the U.S. decision as based on the “narratif” of the Kinshasa government.
That dispute frames the march as more than a party event. It is a public show of support for Washington’s move, while Kabila rejects the rationale attached to it.
Eastern Congo pressure
The party linked its mobilization to the security crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it says the sanctions carry political weight. The announcement places the march inside a broader contest over who carries responsibility for instability and who gets to define the answer.
For Kinshasa, the immediate next step is the 1 May moral talk, followed by the 2 May march and the memorandum at the U.S. embassy. Those are the only scheduled moments in the record, and they set the pace of the dispute now playing out in the capital.
