In the spotlight: the DRC at the head of the African Union
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Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi.
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By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
7 mins
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The mandate of the DRC of the African Union was officially inaugurated on Friday February 27 at the People's Palace by President Félix Tshisekedi in person
."
It is on the front page in the newspaper
Le Maximum
which speaks of "
An event so rich in symbols
".
On occasion, the bi-weekly recalls the theme of this term of office as defined by the Congolese Head of State in his speech accepting his appointment as head of the continental organization on February 6, namely "
Arts, culture and heritage: lever for building the Africa we want
”.
And the newspaper to continue a little further: "
Cradle of humanity, culture, religion and science, the African continent has just spent nearly five centuries behind the others, bowing under the weight of all kinds of ethnological and anthological ideologies from foreign sources.
".
This is to say to what extent, concludes the bi-weekly
Le Maximum
, the task entrusted by the entire continent to the DRC is exhilarating, because it will be necessary to restore Africa to its former grandeur by highlighting its culture. heckled.
For its part, the daily
Le Phare
took an interest in the change that had taken place at the level of the final office of the upper house of parliament.
"
Senate: The triumph of Modeste Bahati
", writes this newspaper which notes: "
Unsurprisingly, Senator Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, who was the sole candidate for the post of president of the upper house of parliament won handily
" ... 89 votes out of 98 voting senators… By this dazzling and final victory, can we still read in the daily
Le Phare
, Modeste Bahati Lukwebo has just taken his revenge on the low blows and humiliations suffered when he was a member of the Common Front for the Congo by Joseph Kabila.
Constitutional revision The bomb of Félix Tshisekedi.
The tri-weekly
Africa News
, for its part, thus highlights an article published on the Congovox site which attributes to Félix Tshisekedi the intention to revise the Constitution.
“
The strategists of the President of the Republic
, reports Africa News which quotes Congovox,
would especially like to exclude from the presidential election of 2023 any competitor who would not have been born of a father and a mother of RD-Congolese nationality.
With the overwhelming majority of 315 held by the Sacred Union in both chambers
, Africa News explains,
this constitutional amendment could be passed in favor of a congress to be organized in the second half of the current year.
(...)
In reality, this change in the constitution brings back the debate of Congolity, like the Ivoirité of sad memory which put Côte d'Ivoire to fire and blood for more than ten years ...
"
The daily
La République
asks, for its part, the question of whether we are heading towards a showdown between President Félix Tshisekedi and CENCO in anticipation of the elections scheduled for 2023. According to this newspaper, in their message made public on March 1, the Catholic bishops ask Prime Minister Sama Lukonde to "do
everything possible to organize credible, transparent and peaceful elections in 2023, no later
".
For the formation of the government in gestation, the bishops "
recall that the people do not want to see those who looted and sowed insecurity in the country
".
They are categorical, the bishops, on the selection criteria and address themselves to President Tshisekedi, underlines the daily La République.
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