Felix Tshisekedi

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been waiting for the formation of its government for almost two months. And on the Presidency's side with regard to the new Prime Minister's entourage, we always promise that this announcement is imminent. In mid-February, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde was indeed appointed Prime Minister. But since then nothing.…

Ethiopia on Wednesday (April 7) declared its dedication to proceed filling the mega-dam on which it's based mostly on the Nile, regardless of the persevering with dispute with Egypt and Sudan. Nonetheless no compromise on the topic. The DRC's capital, Kinshasa, hosted a brand new spherical of negotiations on the topic till Tuesday, April 7. The ministerial delegations in Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt had been convened since Sunday by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi, the present president of the African Union workplace.…

Kinshasa welcomes, from this Saturday, April 3 through Monday, a new round of negotiations around the construction site for the Renaissance dam. The Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese foreign ministers will be present. Ethiopia has been building Africa's largest dam since 2011 on the Nile. Sudan and Egypt in particular fear an impact on their vital water reserves. Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi…

I want to bring everyone back to serenity. We have met all these groups, we have given the conditions to participate in the government, we have received the proposals ... Then, of course, it is time for these exchanges to be able to reach this government, not just inclusively, and when we talk about, that inclusivity means we are talking about geopolitics, we are talking about the participation of all political forces. But we also mentioned other criteria. That was to say that we wanted to see…

It is a special parliamentary session that opened on Monday, March 15, the first in the era of "The Holy Union", the new parliamentary majority, which was constituted on the initiative of Head of State Felix Tshisekedi. It is also during this session that the new government will be invested after the appointment a month ago by Prime Minister Sama Lukonde.…

The heads of state of Central Africa met on Saturday, December 26, at a video conference to discuss the Central African Republic, just before the presidential election, as they urged voters to "go massively to the polls". In its final press release, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), which met on the initiative of Congo-Brazzaville, also condemned "with the greatest energy" the…

The rift continues between President Tshisekedi's camp and his predecessor Joseph Kabila. One of the battlefields is the Federation of Congo Businesses (FEC) and the election of the chief. A relative of the former head of state, Albert Yuma, has been at the helm since 2005. The only candidate, he was re-elected chairman of the board on November 26, but the prime minister suspended his election to the…

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations in charge of peacekeeping operations, ended the mission, which began a week earlier in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday 18 December. He met with the country's political actors, including President Félix Tshisekedi, Martin Fayulu and other stakeholders in the institutional crisis that has developed. What is his view on the…

Ghislain Kikangala, coordinator of the Office of Prevention and Fighting Corruption (APLC), was placed under a preliminary arrest warrant on Friday, December 18, after several hours of questioning by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Kinshasa Court of Appeal. Gombe.

Following a decision by Félix Tshisekedi, the DRC takes new drastic measures to fight the coronavirus. On Tuesday night, the president decided to decide on a curfew across the entire national territory from this Friday. Now 22 of the country's 26 provinces are affected and the number of cases is exploding in the capital Kinshasa and in northern Kivu.…