The front page of the press this week in Kinshasa
On the front page: twenty-five years since the departure of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko!
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Kamanda Wa Kamanda Muzembe © Thomas Nicolon
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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On May 17, 1997
, recalls the inside pages of the periodical
Le Soft
International
,
it was the seizure of power by the armies of the AFDL, the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo,
aided by several countries of the sub-Saharan Africa. region, Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea”
.
“
Marshal Mobutu,
the newspaper then recounted
, had been very physically and politically weakened by the protests which had followed the announcement of democratization in the country... Weakened also by a war of aggression financed,
believe our colleagues,
by Western capitals that he had once served… On May 17, 1997, with the triumphal entry of AFDL troops into Kinshasa, proclaimed an “open city” (…) Marshal Mobutu’s relatives understood that the end of history had sounded
”.
State of siege in the DRC, "
We cannot speak of failure
" notes
L'Avenir
For its part, the daily
L'Avenir
speaks of May 17, formerly Liberation Day, but which is now dedicated to the army.
At the same time, this newspaper lifts a section of the veil on the result of the state of siege in the east of the country where, as the daily headlines,
“
We cannot speak of failure
”.
For
L'Avenir
, we must praise the oh so commendable service that the FARDC render to the nation and the Congolese population.
The military governor of Ituri, General Luboya Nkashama (quoted in the daily) reassures: “
We have taken over the localities from the armed groups, we have reopened the main roads and we can say that we have moved these armed groups away from their centers. of interest…They are wandering
”.
In the daily
Le Phare
, this alert from the UN and NGOs on the situation of more than 5 million people who, in the DRC, live in a situation of displacement, including 3 million children.
One million two hundred thousand of these children are under 5 years old and suffer from acute malnutrition.
With these alarming figures, notes the newspaper
Le Phare
, Unicef has placed Congo Kinshasa among the ten countries which account for 60% of the global burden of wasting in children under 5 years old.
This is a situation that has remained worrying for decades, says the report published in
Le Phare
.
Augustin Matata Ponyo (former Prime Minister) wants to protect himself from legal proceedings
Finally, the bi-weekly
Le Maximum
returns to the Bukanga-Lonzo scandal and titles: “
Matata does not deny
”.
In this scandalous file, writes this newspaper, everything happens as if Augustin Matata Ponyo (the former Prime Minister), rather than denying the accusations of embezzlement of public funds, wanted to protect himself from legal proceedings.
We note, in fact, we can read, that he does not refute the facts of which he is accused, strictly speaking.
What he maintains, notes
Le Maximum
, is that in form, he cannot be judged in his capacity as former Prime Minister for any fact whatsoever.
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