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In the headlines: peaceful alternation in the DRC

This was indeed a change because during the inauguration ceremony, Félix Tshisekedi suffered from a temporary uneasiness. According to a " special doctor " quoted by Politico CD , the new Congolese president " is in a state of extreme fatigue " and with his " new charges ", he must now " take a moment to find the best of his form ".

It must be said that there was atmosphere at the Palace of the Nation of Kinshasa where, after about ten minutes of panic, Felix Tshisekedi was able to resume the course of his inaugural speech.

" Emotion, especially, when the new President advances before the judges of the Constitutional Court to take his oath. He is on the verge of tears, "says Cas Info.

Sequence panic, then sequence emotion, so yesterday in Kinshasa, but hey ... everything was good that ends well. And the Congolese press is asking questions this morning especially for the future. This same Cas-Info newspaper wonders if Felix Tshisekedi will know how to avoid being " the hypo-president?" "Hear: under the cup of his predecessor. " With few MPs, and probably a prime minister and especially a finance minister who would come from the FCC, Felix Tshisekedi will have free rein to translate the slogan of his parent into reality, " asks Cas Info. Which newspaper recalls the said slogan, chanted by the crowd yesterday during the ceremony: " Felix does not forget, Étienne had said, the People first ".

President Tshisekedi and his grand vizier Kabila

Exactly. Félix Tshisekedi who arrives, that does not mean that his predecessor Joseph Kabila has gone. For the headline of the Congolese daily Le Potentiel, on the contrary, it was even Joseph Kabila who was yesterday " in the big leagues ", and one pinches himself to make sure that it is not about a mistake. But no, the presence at the inauguration ceremony of Kenyan leaders Kenyatta and Odinga and the " strong message " addressed by the new Congolese president to his defeated opponent Martin Fayulu can explain the meaning of this unexpected Une. Stressing, however, that " for the first time in its political history ," the DRC had just experienced " its first democratic alternation and a first civilized passage of power between an outgoing president and the incoming president ," Le Potentiel points as well as with the arrival from Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo to the supreme magistracy, the Kabila page " has just been turned ". But beware, he warns immediately, the new power, " the people expect a lot ." To begin with, Le Potentiel, through the improvement of his " daily experience ", the " restoration " of the rule of law where all freedoms are guaranteed, the security of the people assured " in the four corners of the Republic ", or still the fight against the " antivaleurs " and the " transparent " management of the country's resources. It is thus, warns to conclude this newspaper Kinshasa, " in the understanding of the average Congolese, the new page to be written now must be written with the people ".

As Burkina Faso's daily newspaper L'Observateur Paalga points out, Félix Tshisekedi will need " a goldsmith's dexterity so as not to be a puppet in the hands of the Kabila system but a true statesman who will make this cohabitation crucible of a collaboration of the main political forces of the country to build a strong Congo, turned towards the progress and the development. In any case, it's all the harm that we wish him ", states, a bit like we present his New Year's greetings, Observer Paalga.

In the courtrooms of the Central African Republic

In Central Africa, the transfer this week of Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona to the International Criminal Court rekindles the hope of justice that passes in the crisis that bloodied the country in 2013. " While waiting for peace (in Central Africa), justice is well underway, "says in France, the newspaper Libération. The country has indeed a rather complete " arsenal " judicial, considers this daily, with " an ad hoc jurisdiction, the special court (...) as well as two ordinary courts, in Bangui and Bambari, which slowly resume service ". Not without difficulty, however, since the leaders of the former Séléka " remain for the moment difficult to apprehend, " moderates this daily.

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