In addressing ICC complementarity with African national courts, scholar Phil Clark states "...the [Congolese military] courts have gone through a thorough reform process in the last 15 years to the extent that they can now tackle really difficult cases..." This in a recent interview with Open Societies, discussing Clark's book "Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics" (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018). The interview is linked here. Note that in a mixed post-/ongoing conflict environment spanning a vast territory encompassing myriad ethnicities, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, well-functioning military courts are essential to finding justice for mass atrocity crimes, and to abating climates of impunity.
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