THE main rebel movement battling Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has ousted its leader Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, accusing him of “high treason,” a communique said on Wednesday. The executive committee of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) made the decision after Wamba dia Wamba allegedly met with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Kabila early this month in Harare. Wamba dia Wamba has denied the alleged meeting ever took place. RCD founders in May ousted Wamba did Wamba from the group’s inner circle, in a leadership dispute that has prevented the rebels from signing a peace deal to end the war in the DRC. The peace plan has been signed by Kabila and the leaders of six other countries involved in the war in the DR Congo. Now the RCD military chiefs have thrown their support behind Emile Ilunga as the group’s leader, and Major Jean-Pierre Ondekane as its top military commander.