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nearly 2 billion dollars needed to respond to the humanitarian crisis
This year again, the humanitarian crisis remains complex in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United Nations, international NGOs and the authorities have announced that they need nearly 2…
the Congolese delighted with the lifting of the curfew
In the DRC, the curfew was lifted on Monday 14 February across the whole country, with the exception of Ituri and North Kivu, two provinces where a state of siege…
improvement in tax revenue despite the persistence of corruption in the country
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, government authorities are pleased with a peak in tax revenue observed last year, a first in the history of Congolese financial authorities. With around…
scandal of embezzlement of public funds at the Ministry of Health
The General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) published a report this weekend “ overwhelming on the management of five Ministry of Health programs in particular. 300 million dollars have been embezzled,…
Uganda calls ICJ ruling ‘unfair and wrong’ in DRC dispute
With our correspondent in Kigali, Laure Broulard In this case, Kinshasa had also seized the ICJ against another actor in this war, Rwanda. A request that never came to fruition.…
The Games of La Francophonie in the DRC postponed from 2022 to 2023
The IX Games of La Francophonie, initially scheduled for Canada in 2021 and rescheduled for 2022 (August 19 to 28) in the DRC, have been postponed to 2023, announced the…
other arrests planned in the Beya affair, the presidency appoints his replacement
François Beya, special adviser to Félix Tshisekedi in matters of security, is still being held in premises of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in Kinshasa. According to the Congolese presidency,…
Lyemi: The African Manga – Life Here
It’s a new style of comics that is emerging in Kinshasa, inspired by Japanese manga and American comics: the Lyemi (drawing in Lingala) portray African heroes, and are meeting with…
“Schwaarze Mann”, the story of Luxembourg’s first black citizen
Jacques Leurs was born in 1910 in the Congo, the son of a Luxembourg settler and a Congolese woman. Abandoned in Luxembourg by his parents who remained in the Belgian…
in Rio, protesters demand justice for a murdered Congolese
In Brazil, several demonstrations took place throughout the country, this Saturday, February 5, to demand justice after the death of Moïse Kabagambe. This 24-year-old Congolese refugee was beaten to death…