Central Africa

This is one of the UN's goals for sustainable development: to eradicate world hunger by 2030. It will not be achieved. It is now a security. According to the UN, malnutrition and hunger, largely driven by the pandemic and economic crisis, increased further in 2020. Chronic hunger now affects almost 10% of the world's population. Asia is the first to be affected, but the trend is particularly worrying…

The proposed law on "comfort" ignites the political debate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Posted last week, the law could ban access to the presidency and other sovereign functions for people who do not have a Congolese father and mother. The coalition of former President Joseph Kabila considers it unconstitutional.…

Tributes are rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the death of Laurent Monsengwo, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Kinshasa. He was the most famous figure in the Catholic Church in Congo, president of the Bishops' Conference in Zaire, already critical at the time of Marshal Mobutu. Despite his opposition to all regimes for 30 years, the tributes on Sunday night were unanimous.…

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo urged the Congolese to be vigilant after the "conglomerate" bill was introduced. This text aims to introduce a condition for accession to the presidency of the republic to have a father and mother with Congolese nationality. "I urge you to resist hate speech and initiatives that exclude and divide…

The curtain fell this Saturday, July 10, in Kinshasa on the third day of the States General on Mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They make up the bulk of the country's exports, but do not earn enough in the treasury. More than a hundred recommendations came out of this meeting, written by the hundred participants, the authorities and the managers of mining companies, to make the mining sector…

After a two-week stay in Kinshasa, Annie Chebeya left the capital of Congo on Friday, July 9th. The widow of the former executive director of the Voice of the Voiceless for Human Rights, murdered on June 1, 2010, had returned to the country after eleven years in exile in Canada. During her stay in Kinshaha, Annie Chebeya…

With the proposed law on "Congolity", the census project to update the electoral roll, the legal proceedings against politicians (Vital Kamerhe, Matata Ponyo), Lucha says she is concerned about respect for the election calendar. General elections in the DRC. The movement calls for "defending free, open and inclusive elections".…

Representatives of the opposition and civil society were received on Friday, July 9, by the Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Central African Presidency, Obed Namsio. Objective: to provoke disagreements over the future committee that will organize the republican dialogue in the country. On June 30, a presidential decree angering the organization of this committee angered the opposition.…

"Congolence: the text of Noël Tshiani on Mboso's table", the daily Le Phare announces. According to this newspaper, the president of the National Assembly received this on Thursday, July 8 the nationality bill from the hands of Deputy Nsingi Pululu. This is a text developed by the 2018 presidential candidate Noël Tshiani and which will be discussed during the next parliamentary session, Le Phare explains.Under the headline…

The Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union, Bankolé Adéoye, left on Friday 9 July in Ndjamena, who had arrived two days earlier in an attempt to put an end to the crisis born of the Transitional Government's decision to reject the AU appointment. High Representative in Chad, the Senegalese Ibrahima Fall. If we are to believe a statement from the Chadian Presidency,…