In the spotlight: in the DRC, the issue of nationality at the center of debates
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A Congolese passport.
For several days, the issue of nationality has animated debates and divided in the DRC.
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By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
6 mins
Publicity
“
From Congolese father and mother
”. Under this title, in the section À Haute Voix, the daily
Le Potentiel
returns to the issue of nationality which has been at the center of debates for several days. The question divides. And, writes the columnist, the head of state shared his thoughts with the senators of the Sacred Union he received last Saturday. According to this colleague, Tshisekedi rather advised the way of wisdom. He sent back to back the pro and anti-Congolities, he notes.
"
Nationality of origin: a false alarm
", also estimates the tri-weekly
Africanews
. This newspaper reviews the history of the DRC to demonstrate the dangers of the process. "
Nationality is a state of mind, an attitude, a mental disposition and a filiation by the heart",
we can still read in
Africanews. This is why,
writes the tri-weekly,
it is necessary to fear that compatriots who were born to Congolese fathers and mothers are, in their hearts, the greatest traitors to the nation
… ”
In the newspaper
L'Avenir, “Abundant harvest for the FARDC
”. This is the assessment of a month's state of siege in Ituri and North Kivu. A report delivered Wednesday by the Minister of the Media Patrick Muyaya in the company of General Léon Richard Kasonga, spokesman for the army and Colonel Pierrot Mwanamputu, spokesperson for the police. All the sanctuaries, all the strongholds, all the ADF headquarters were dismantled, the artisanal weapons factory and the logistics destroyed, we can also read in
L'Avenir
.
"
Solidarity around the FARDC required
".
It is
La Prospérité
, another daily, which writes it with official information, Patrick Muyaya announces significant progress.
"
The armed forces of the DRC have been on all fronts, in North Kivu and Ituri, since the establishment of the state of siege with the ultimate goal of restoring the authority of the State in this part of the territory. national
”, explains the newspaper, before highlighting great feats of arms.
All the ADF sanctuaries and headquarters have been dismantled, the weapons of several foreign and local armed groups recovered, ADF leaders and several Congolese collaborators of these enemies of peace apprehended, according to the newspaper
La Prosperity.
.
Lastly,
in the daily
Le Phare
, “
Visa cards: organized looting of the DRC
”.
A case revealed by the General Inspectorate of Finance which took on the contours of a major financial scandal.
These are Visa cards granted by the Central Bank of Congo to illegal recipients of public funds, according to the newspaper.
These illegal beneficiaries must reimburse, writes
Le Phare,
which also reveals that “
Nicolas Kazadi, the finance minister, did not ask for the Central Bank of Congo, the epicenter of this financial mafia, to deactivate, without delay, those famous Visa cards of doom
.
"
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