In the Central African Republic, the opposition is breaking its silence. The Republican Bloc for the Defense of the Constitution, BRDC held a press conference on Tuesday to denounce the constitutional referendum announced by President Touadéra last week. For them the president wants to change the constitution to run for a 3rd term. The correspondence in Bangui of Rolf Steve Domia-Leu and Melino Bandio.

A new step towards elections in DR Congo. The law on the distribution of seats in the National Assembly was adopted by deputies on Tuesday. A law that is controversial since the distribution of seats is calculated on the basis of the electoral register itself strongly contested. The CENI had declared a little more than 40 million voters enrolled after the cleaning of the electoral register, figures deemed fraudulent by the opposition. the correspondence of Aurélie Bazzara Kibangula.

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