The front page of the press this week in Kinshasa

Headline: “And here is the Poutine variant!”

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Kamanda Wa Kamanda Muzembe © Thomas Nicolon

By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda

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This is the title of the daily

Forum des As

in its editorial.

For this newspaper

, “Humanity thought it was at the end of its troubles with the Omicron variant.

Error

!

the editorialist immediately changes his mind

, evoking yet another variant of the Slavic type which

, writes the colleague

, has just been detected straddling Russia and Ukraine.

Given its high contagiousness,

continues colleague Nawej Karl,

it could quickly affect all of Europe.

And globalization obliges, to reach the United States of America

”, he warns.

"

…Children, adolescents, young people, middle-aged men and women, senior citizens and those with co-morbidities…all are under threat from the so-called 'Putin' strain.

A variant which, in addition to the dead, devastates everything in its path… It looks like a typhoon”.

"Addis Ababa Accord Monitoring Mechanism: Tshisekedi takes over the presidency".

The newspaper

Le Maximum reports on the meeting of the summit of Heads of State of the signatory countries of this Agreement, a meeting which saw the participation of the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Jean-Pierre Lacroix.

Postponed three times, in October 2019, then in February and March 2020, this summit was finally held on February 24 at the City of the African Union in Kinshasa,

recalls this bi-weekly.

Le Maximum notes, however, that Rwandan President Paul Kagame was the biggest absentee from the Kinshasa summit.

He was represented there by the Prime Minister of his country,

however indicates

Le Maximum.

Tracking down agents misappropriating State public funds.

The tri-weekly AFRICANEWS is interested in the funds embezzled by agents of State companies.

And title: Relevant request from Minister of State Kahinda to her colleague Mutombo.

Adèle Kahinda Mayina, the Minister of State for the portfolio, met her justice colleague.

With Rose Mutombo,

reports the tabloid

, they exchanged widely on the hunt for agents embezzling state public funds.

Those who, after their crime, continue to take it easy, without the slightest desire to return the stolen

 funds

.

According to the colleagues of AFRICANEWS,

 “

Adele Kahinda says she filed a report on Rose Mutombo's table against these crooked agents who, obviously, would like to defy justice and the rule of law advocated by the Head of State.

Beyond the SCTP (ex Onatra) and Congo Airways whose representatives have been suspended since last July.

This sends a clear and strong message to all the other agents concerned by misappropriations

 ”

,

specifies

AFRICANEWS.

Autopsy of an electoral competition: that of the elections of governors and vice-governors of provinces

Finally, in the daily

Le Potentiel,

Autopsy of an electoral competition.

In his section

A Haute Voix

, the editorialist looked at the elections of governors and vice-governors of provinces.

“How many men and how many women enter the competition?

According to the editorialist

, 183 application forms were withdrawn, 159 independent candidates registered, 129 perception notes withdrawn from the DGRAD but only 79 paid the deposit and only 67 candidates submitted their files... That is to say 11 women and 56 men”.

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