During the 12 days he spent behind bars in Kinshasa in late March, the Belarusian Alexander Zingman was interrogated at length by the DRC's national intelligence agency (Africa Intelligence, 02/04/21), but also by US and Russian diplomats who were able to visit him in jail, over his ties with the former head of state Joseph Kabila. Since coming to power in January 2019, President Félix Tshisekedi has been carrying a nagging fear that his predecessor might team up with foreign operatives to overturn