On the front page of the press in Kinshasa: insecurity in eastern DRC
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Félix Tshisekedi is to announce a "large-scale operation in the coming days against the actors of insecurity in eastern DRC" announces the daily "La République". Here, a Congolese soldier of the FARDC patrols after an attack attributed to the ADF rebels, in February 2020, near Beni.
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By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
7 mins
Publicity
“
Insecurity and terrorism in eastern DRC. The final assault in the air!
It is on the front page of the newspaper
La République
. The daily recalls that "
Many conjectures have fueled the issue of insecurity in the eastern part of the country in recent days
". According to the colleagues of the
Republic
, Félix Tshisekedi is assured of solid support from Washington, which has resumed military cooperation with Kinshasa and now considers the ADF to be terrorists. "
For those who know the modus operandi of the Americans,
explains the newspaper,
the rapprochement in the military field between Cairo and Kinshasa should proceed from the strategy of ensuring the latter perfect support for its security needs
. And the
Republic
to wonder if the offer of Kenya to reinforce the strength of the FARDC is not closely linked to the same strategy? “
It is in addition,
concludes the newspaper
, the opportunity that capitalizes Felix Tshisekedi to announce a large-scale operation in the coming days against the actors of insecurity in eastern DRC.
"
On the same subject, the newspaper
La Prospérité
writes: "
Uhuru Kenyatta to the rescue of Félix Tshisekedi to fight armed groups in eastern DRC
". This daily publishes in full the joint statement made public at the end of the Kenyan president's visit to Kinshasa.
For its part, the daily
Le Phare week-end
, still on the front page, wonders: “
Massacres and killings in Ituri, North and South Kivu. Who are the elected representatives of the East for
?
". "
At a time when the Congolese are impatiently awaiting the inauguration of the Sama Lukonde government in order to deal with the management of the files deemed urgent by the Republic, public opinion is witnessing a certain agitation within a certain political class
", s 'worries the newspaper, which particularly points to elected officials from three provinces in the east of the country: Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu where, adds
Le Phare
,
"
peace is seriously compromised several decades ago.
. ”.
For this daily, it is the moment that these elected representatives of the people in distress choose to suspend their participation in parliamentary work on the grounds that they are protesting against insecurity.
Their message is unequivocal, they do not want to invest the Sama Lukonde government, or at least attend the plenary devoted to his inauguration.
A clear and clean way of blocking the investiture of the new government, underlines
Le Phare Week-end
for whom "we
are perplexed in the face of what appears to be a deliberately maintained confusion
".
Interpellation of Willy Bakonga Wilima
Finally, the newspaper
L'Avenir
, another daily, took an interest in the arrest at Brazzaville airport, the other Congo, of Willy Bakonga Wilima, outgoing minister of primary, secondary and technical. He crossed the river in a canoe, say ACAJ sources quoted by the newspaper and add that the former minister tried to travel to France with two million dollars in his bag. Placed in detention in the premises of the Intelligence and Documentation Center in Brazzaville after his arrest, Kinshasa requested his extradition to try Willy Bakonga for alleged embezzlement of public funds, can we still read in
L'Avenir
.
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