On the front page: the anniversary of the disappearance of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba
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The disappearance of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba had left part of the Congolese population orphaned.
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By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
7 min
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First this anniversary, at the beginning of the week, of the disappearance of Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, the founder of the UDPS who died on February 1, 2017 in Brussels.
The newspaper
La République
looks back on the thanksgiving mass which was celebrated at the mausoleum where the body of the illustrious disappeared in the town of N'sele lies.
The daily recalls that Etienne Tshisekedi had been Prime Minister elected at the Sovereign National Conference.
"
A great figure in the struggle for democracy and social progress whose history is comparable to that of Moses in the Bible
", explains
La République,
citing the officiant of the mass, Monsignor Charles Ndaka (auxiliary bishop of Kinshasa) for who : "
Having grown up in Pharaoh's house, Moses was called to fight the latter and lead his people towards their liberation
”.
And the newspaper also paraphrased the head of the civil house of the Head of State, Doctor Bruno Miteyo: "
The fight of this illustrious icon remains and will remain a beautiful legacy for the Congolese of all generations
".
For its part, the newspaper
La Prospérité
, for its part, was interested in the change at the head of the lower house of parliament and headlines: “Christophe Mboso Nkodia Pwanga confirmed at the head of the National Assembly!
According to this newspaper, after his election, the new president paid a vibrant tribute to the Head of State Félix Antoine Tshisekedi for having launched the Sacred Union of the Nation.
"
The train of democracy is strongly on,
" writes this daily, paraphrasing Mboso Nkodia, who appealed to deputies: "
To prepare for the next ordinary session which will be devoted to the inauguration of the next government, to electoral reforms and those of the security sector, justice and human rights.
"
On the same subject of the election and the installation of the final office of the National Assembly, the daily
Le Phare
, for its part, praises Jean-Marc Kabund, elected, and even re-elected, first vice- president of this chamber.
In short, "
a comeback after losing the same position to a motion in the scent of a cabal from the political family of the former head of state
", can we read in the columns of the newspaper recalls that Kabund was nicknamed "
Lifeguard
" for having had the misfortune to remember the sad drama of Mobutist parties hurriedly in exile across the Congo River aboard makeshift canoes or swimming.
"
Humiliated, demonized and hunted like a filth, the interim national president of the UDPS did not deserve such treatment
", deplores
Le Phare
not without recalling that he was nevertheless the interface of Nehemiah Mwilanya (the coordinator of the political family of Joseph Kabila) within the FCC-CACH coalition.
Finally, the tri-weekly
Le Maximum
asks the question: "
What about the post FCC-CACH sequence after the divorce between Félix Tshisekedi and Joseph Kabila Kabange?"
In Kinshasa, the end of the FCC-CACH coalition has opened a new sequence of uncertainty for the future
", observes this newspaper which notes however that:"
Many Congolese expect a lot from President Félix Tshisekedi and his Sacred Union of nation.
While Felix Tshisekedi is in the process of overturning the foundations of an unprecedented alliance, the time has come to take stock of this alliance,
”said
Le Maximum,
who spoke of weariness and disappointment among political analysts.
While waiting for the political landscape to stabilize, the average Congolese are content to pray that the country's political scene finds more coherence.
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