The front page of the press this week in Kinshasa
In the spotlight: the DRC celebrates 62 years of independence
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At the Palais de la Nation, during the commemorations, the historic speech given during independence by Patrice Lumumba was rebroadcast, in Kinshasa, on June 29, 2022. © Paulina Zidi / RFI
By: Kamanda Wa Kamanda
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The DRC celebrated its 62 years of independence this week.
An event commented on throughout the country's press.
“
Cha Cha independence
: 62 years of dashed hopes
!
headlines the daily
Le Phare
, which recalls that on Thursday, June 30, 1960, King Baudouin I of Belgium solemnly proclaimed, at the Palais de la Nation, the independence of the Belgian Congo.
Essentially, continues the newspaper, we note that the Belgian sovereign had insisted on a handover in friendship and fraternity as well as on the transfer to the Congolese by Belgium of a peaceful, united and prosperous Congo, dependent on the former colonized to capitalize on the achievements of a common past... The sad and unfortunate observation to be made, concludes
Le Phare
, 62 years later, is that the fathers of independence like their heirs have disappointed all hopes to build a great Congo on all fronts.
For its part, the weekly
The Post
writes under the title “
Still betrayed
!
», that «
Lumumba, the hero with the blaster speech, visionary before his time, finds a country far from his dream of prosperity and power, plagued by bad governance and subject to the diktat of imperialism and its subcontractors
».
On the route from the airport to the center of the city, writes
The Post
again , “
the relic of Lumumba (…) did not meet the crowds that we would have hoped for from this great spirit of our national history
” .
And the weekly
The Post
noted: "
If he had still been alive, Lumumba would be 97 years old today, just three lengths from his centenary.
This lack of enthusiasm is explained,
according to the newspaper,
by a conscience heavily charged with a political class which seriously betrayed the combat of the first Prime Minister
”.
Vital Kamerhe in pole position for the Prime Minister
For its part, the tri-weekly
Africa News
examines the speech of June 30 by the President of the Republic.
In this address to the nation, the newspaper notes what it calls "
Tshisekedi's truths
".
After pointing out that the country is currently facing "
an umpteenth aggression from Rwanda, which is acting under cover of the M23 terrorist movement...
", the President of the DRC reaffirmed that in Nairobi, no specifications relating to the Automatic integration into the security forces or amnesty for crimes that cannot be prescribed will not be accepted.
The newspaper refers here to the discussions of the States of the East African community for a solution on the situation of insecurity observed in the East of the DRC.
Finally, the return of Vital Kamerhe on the political scene.
It is to be read in the Forum des As
newspaper
.
For this daily, in view of the reunion between Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe on Tuesday, at the City of the African Union, it smells of prime minister for the former chief of staff of the Head of State.
According to colleagues from
Forum des As
, as announced by Félix Tshisekedi a year ago, Vital Kamerhe could play a major role on the political scene, one year before the 2023 elections. already the spirits to the electoral contests.
And in this perspective, we can still read, Fatshi wants to return to the hearts of his voters.
Forum of Aces
believes that by his profile and given the issues of the hour, Vital Kamerhe seems better suited to don the costume of the pre-election era.
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