Tag: ground floor
How is the Angolan deployment in eastern DRC perceived in Kinshasa?
The Angolan Parliament is due to consider this Friday the request for the deployment of a military contingent in eastern DRC. This deployment was announced a few days ago by…
the “message of solidarity” of the UN after the visit to the displaced people of the camp of Bushagara
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the members of the United Nations Security Council are completing their mission in the country this Sunday, March 12. This Sunday, they were…
In the spotlight: retirement at “whatever it takes”
The countdown has begun for the vote on the pension reform project in France. If the text has, of course, been voted by the Senate, a perspective is emerging, that…
opposition supporters demonstrate massively against Rwandan aggression
In Kinshasa, the political parties of Martin Fayulu, Moïse Katumbi and Augustin Matata Ponyo, three candidates for the next presidential election, attracted tens of thousands of supporters on Saturday March…
in Goma, the Security Council affirms its faith in diplomacy to resolve the conflict
The members of the United Nations Security Council complete this Sunday in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, their mission in the DRC. Meanwhile, in Kinshasa, the hostilities in the…
the European Union sets up a humanitarian air bridge to Goma
A European emergency aid plane – the first of an airlift – landed on Friday March 10 in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A…
the expectations of the displaced during the visit of the UN Security Council mission
The security situation in the east of the DRC, at the heart of the meeting between Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and a UN delegation, on a three-day visit to the…
The “true lie” of the Congolese Éric Mukendi
My two dads is Eric Mukendi’s first novel. French teacher in Rouen, this primo-novelist tells us with a real talent as a storyteller the fortunes and misfortunes of immigration and…
justice looks into controversial giant Sicomines contract
The Prosecutor General of Kinshasa-Gombe has opened an investigation into the overcharging of infrastructure works carried out under the Sino-Congolese contract “Mines against infrastructure”, concluded in 2008, under former President…
In the spotlight: Rwanda replaces Sparta
A first for five years: the arrival, yesterday Thursday March 9, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, of a delegation from the United Nations Security Council, for a working visit…