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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…

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…

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…

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,…

"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…

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…

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi on Saturday, June 19, condemned mafia exercises and "shenanigans" within the country's armed forces and institutions. These remarks were made in Bunia, the capital of Ituri, during an exchange with representatives of the people of the province. "There is a problem with manpower in our army,"…

Conflicting decisions between, on the one hand, the National Assembly authorizing national deputies to be heard by the courts and, on the other hand, the Senate rejecting the waiver of the immunity of certain members of this House. Voices have been raised to mourn the scandal over senators' attitudes that, according to some structures, have hampered justice.…

Hospitals crowded with patients and successive peaks of new cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, "the third wave of Covid-19" worries the political and health authorities. At the end of the Council of Ministers' meeting on Friday 18 June around the President and the Prime Minister, a video conference adopted new restrictions. No containment, but the measures are strong and affect all social…

The Congolese Constitutional Court has upheld the dismissal of Zoé Kabila as governor of Tanganyika province. A decision was announced on Friday 18 June at the end of a public hearing. The little brother of the former president, fired in early May by a majority of the province's deputies, had taken legal action. as reported…