GERMAIN KATANGAPerson

Designations

• Designated by UN Security Council under program DRC since 2005-11-01. Other entities under DRC

Source remarks: CDi.006 — Appointed General in the FARDC in December 2004. Handed over by the Government of the DRC to the International Criminal Court on 18 October 2007. Initially convicted on 23 May 2014 by the ICC to 12 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the ICC Appeals Chamber reduced his sentence and determined that Katanga’s sentence should be completed on 18 January 2016. Although he was detained in the Netherlands for the duration of his trial, Katanga was transferred to a DRC prison in December 2015 and charged for other crimes previously committed in Ituri. (official source)

Key properties

Date of birth

1978-04-28

Place of birth

Mambasa, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nationality

CD

Addresses

Source list & list version

Last confirmed present in UN Security Council Consolidated List list version un_sc_sanctions@2026-06-19, observed 2026-06-19.

Source: United Nations Security Council Consolidated List (scsanctions.un.org), used under CC BY 3.0 IGO.

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