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the families of the accused say they are threatened

We are always insecure where we are. We always ask for support from the international community, because we have visited the Congolese since the revelations were made. We are always visited where we are. In addition, our families lived there in the Congo in Katanga and they are still receiving threats from our friends. Hergile Ilunga, a police officer who admits to having been part of the killer command Sonia Rolley…

Suspicion of mafia exercises within the forces

Congolese military officers are said to have blown up the troops under their command to make money. Three of them are the subject of legal proceedings in Ituri because of these practices. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeAccording to the military prosecutor in Ituri province, three senior officials were…

return to the country to the widow Floribert Chebeya

Annie Chebeya returned to the DRC on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, after eleven years in exile in Canada. She will respond to the invitation from a structure that retained her as the recipient of the "Mama Marthe Kasalu Prize", the widow of the historic opponent Étienne Tshisekedi and the mother of President Félix Tshisekedi. Annie Chebeya appeared, followed by Ghislain Bazana, son of her deceased power companion in an accident, murdered on June 1, 2010. Hugs, tears, crying ... A moment of intense emotion as Annie Chebeya…

The National Assembly announces that the 500 cars

The National Assembly's office is embarrassed by the controversy surrounding an alleged donation of vehicles to the 500 deputies. The rapporteur for the lower house of the Congolese parliament has slightly changed his boss' version by ensuring that these jeeps will be offered as credit to deputies. "Jeeps ordered by the office, as in any legislator, will be granted on credit to the Honorary Council," said rapporteur Joseph Lembi Libula. Through this confirmation, the Assembly Bureau he repented. "Each institution has…

in Kasai, asks Minister Fabrice Puela

This Tuesday, June 22, the Minister of Human Rights visited Fabrice Puela Tshisuku at the Kasaïcentralen. A ceremony was held for the handing over of ten bodies, ten victims who had been extracted from a mass grave for justice and medical needs. legal investigations. These bodies were installed in a mausoleum built in memory of the massacre. It was at the time of the uprising for the followers of the ordinary leader Kamuina Nsapu. At 2 p.m., an unknown number of soldiers from a 2101 FARDC regiment opened fire on…

“Dan Gertler had brought in these blocks

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society welcomes the government's decision not to renew the operating license of Israeli businessman Dan Gertler for two oil blocks in Ituri. The one we nicknamed Joseph Kabila's friend questions this decision and evokes force majeure to explain why certain parts of the production…

In Kinshasa, companies hard hit

The new restrictions linked to Covid-19 are a blow to companies in the capital Kinshasa. Bars, nightclubs and terraces are forced to close by the authorities to deal with the "third wave" of the pandemic, more virulent than the first two. as reported from Kinshasa, Pascal MulegwaIt performs new measures against Covid-19,…

In the spotlight: Africa hit a third

"Against a global downward trend since the beginning of May, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated in Africa for the fifth week in a row. Africa Pointabove all. The trajectory of Covid cases in Africa is "very, very worrying", the WHO estimated on Friday, with the spread of more infectious variants and a dangerously low level of vaccination. According to data collected by the WHO, there were 116,500 new infections in Africa…

NGOs condemn the “illegal” granting of

Several NGOs condemn the "illegal" granting of large primary forest concessions to a single company. Contracts signed in September last year by Claude Nyamugabo, former Minister of the Environment, but not published on the ministry's website until March. By studying these contracts, forest rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo observed several irregularities. And they ask for cancellation, It is an area as large as half of Burundi: 1,370,000 hectares of primary forest located in the north-north of the Democratic…

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