“Insecurity and terrorism in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The last assault in the air! It is on the front page of La République. Dagbladet reminds that “Many guesses have raised the issue of uncertainty in the eastern part of the country in recent days”.
According to fellow Republicans, Félix Tshisekedi is assured of solid support from Washington, which has resumed military cooperation with Kinshasa and now considers the ADF to be terrorists.
“For those familiar with the US modus operandi, the newspaper explains, the approach in the military field between Cairo and Kinshasa should depart from the strategy of ensuring the latter perfect support for its security needs.”
And the Republic wonders if the offer of Kenya to strengthen the strength of the FARDC is not closely linked to the same strategy? “It is also, the newspaper concludes, the opportunity that capitalizes Felix Tshisekedi to announce a large-scale operation in the coming days against the actors of insecurity in the eastern DRC.”
On the same subject, the newspaper La Prospérité writes: “Uhuru Kenyatta to the rescue of Félix Tshisekedi to fight armed groups in the eastern DRC”. This daily publishes in its entirety the joint communication published at the end of the Kenyan President’s visit to Kinshasa.
The daily Le Phare weekend, still on the front page, wonders for its part: “Massacres and murders in Ituri, northern and southern Kivu.
For whom are the elected representatives? “” At a time when the Congolese are impatiently awaiting the inauguration of the Sama Lukonde government to deal with matters deemed urgent by the republic, public opinion is witnessing a certain agitation within a certain political class, “worries the newspaper, which specifically points to the elected officials in three provinces in the eastern part of the country: Ituri, northern Kivu and southern Kivu there, Le Phare adds, “peace was seriously compromised several decades ago. ”.
For this daily, it is right now that these elected representatives choose to suspend their participation in Parliament’s work on the grounds that they are protesting against insecurity.
Their message is clear, they do not want to invest in the Sama Lukonde government or at least attend the plenary dedicated to his inauguration. A clear and unequivocal way of blocking investment from the new government, Le Phare Week-end emphasizes for whom “we are puzzled by what appears to be a deliberately upset confusion”.
Interpellation by Willy Bakonga Wilima
Finally, the newspaper L’Avenir, another daily newspaper, was interested in the arrest of Brazzaville Airport, the other Congo, by Willy Bakonga Wilima, the outgoing Minister of Primary, Secondary and Technical Affairs. He crossed the river in a canoe, ACAJ sources quoted the newspaper as saying, adding that the former minister was trying to travel to France with two million dollars in his bag. Kinshasa was detained at the premises of the intelligence service in Brazzaville after his arrest and requested that he be extradited to try Willy Bakonga for alleged embezzlement of public funds, we can still read in L’Avenir.
