The front page of the press this week in Kinshasa
In the spotlight: back on the crisis situation between the DRC and Rwanda
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Kamanda Wa Kamanda Muzembe © Thomas Nicolon
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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“
War against a latent occupation
”.
Under this headline, the biweekly
Le Maximum looks
back on the crisis situation between the DRC and Rwanda... A situation in which
"the facts are regaining clarity
", explains this newspaper, which continues: "
If international opinion shows his usual apathy in the face of the insecurity maintained for three decades in the east of the DRC, internally, we no longer have any illusions
: the Rwandan squatters on the ground and in the Congolese underground do not hear release.
And all the dialogues can do nothing about it
, ”underlines the tabloid.
For the colleagues of the
Maximum
, unlike Yoweri Museveni's Uganda, which shows flexibility by creating an economic and commercial exit route, coupled with military support for the eradication of negative forces, Paul Kagame's Rwanda has remained resolutely bellicose and no longer even conceals its expansionist ambitions.
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proven between the Bisunzu Mining Company and the M23 in Masisi
On the same subject, the daily newspaper
Le Phare
mentions :
“Proven connection between the Bisunzu Mining Company and the M23 in Masisi
”.
The newspaper takes up a denunciation made in plenary to the National Assembly by an elected official from Masisi, in North Kivu.
Justin Ndayishimiye fears an attack that would start from his stronghold, Masisi, with the participation of armed elements in Congolese national police uniform assigned to the protection of an SMB quarry.
“
In reality,
according to this elected official,
among these elements are camouflaged members of M23.
And are the perpetrators of several abuses against the local population,
reports the newspaper
Le Phare
, which explains that
the SMB is this concession amputated from the Société aurifère du Kivu-Maniema in 2000 and attributed as spoils of war by the RCD to the CNDP and the M23”.
"Kinshasa suspends all agreements with Kigali"
It is, according to
Africa News
, the consequence of this aggression of the DRC by Rwanda.
The Kinshasa tri-weekly thus comments on the decision of the Superior Council of Defense meeting on Wednesday June 15.
It is, he explains, all the memorandums of understanding, agreements and conventions concluded with Rwanda.
These mainly economic sanctions aim to suffocate Rwanda, maintains the newspaper which cites among these frozen agreements, that relating to the refining of gold and the ban on the flight in the DRC of Rwandair, the Rwandan national aviation company.
Another title finally, in
Le Soft International
: Will Pope Francis come to Congo?
At the bottom of a photo of the pope in a wheelchair, this caption: Pope Francis, 85, who is suffering from severe knee pain following a damaged ligament, which has just forced him to cancel the meetings and trips planned on his agenda … And in the columns of this newspaper, there is a hope that the pope will come.
For Mgr Marcel Utembi Tapa, the president of CENCO: “
The pope is coming…to revive the hope of the Congolese people who need peace, security and well-being…
”.
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