Kinshasa

Kinshasa welcomes, from this Saturday, April 3 through Monday, a new round of negotiations around the construction site for the Renaissance dam. The Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese foreign ministers will be present. Ethiopia has been building Africa's largest dam since 2011 on the Nile. Sudan and Egypt in particular fear an impact on their vital water reserves. Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi…

"Election reforms: the ambiguity of religious denominations". This headline on the front page of Le Potentiel calls for the eight religious denominations officially recognized in the Democratic Republic of Congo and "which, according to this diary, are already active in the appointment of the future leader of the Independent National Electoral Commission". "They demanded in advance profound reforms of the entire electoral system, including a review of the management of the outgoing office," the newspaper added. Le…

In the daily Le Potentiel, in the headline, "Election 2023: CENCO Reveals Its Roadmap". According to this newspaper, "the National Bishops' Conference in Congo intends to maintain pressure on the government to hold parliamentary elections in 2023." This structure of the Catholic Church insists that it "does not tolerate any slippage", we can still read. "The CENCO roadmap includes a range of activities, Le Potentiel…

Book Express, founded a year ago by a passionate reader, Alpha Ramazani, is one of the only bookstores in Kinshasa. But to allow readers in his hometown to also have access to the latest novels, the latest French-speaking essays or documents, he commutes between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Kong and departs regularly at Kinshasa Airport, with suitcases folded with sweat in his forehead. Its…

The Democratic Republic of Congo launched its first curfew on the evening of Friday 18 December. Against a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases, the authorities have decided to ban all activities from 21:00 to 05:00, except with exceptional permission. In the streets of Kinshasa, Congolese have been forced to adapt to this new situation and are currently unlimited.…

On the front page of Kinshasa newspapers.

Thirty-one professors from the University of Kinshasa, the largest in the country, have died since January. Illness, poor medical care, difficult working conditions are among the causes, according to the association of UNIKIN professors. This is the first time that the university has achieved these figures in one year. Kinshasa, the troubling situation in academia.…

The two nearest capitals of the world, separated by the Congo River, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, share the same spectrum of transmission and telecommunications frequencies. This sometimes gives rise to misunderstandings. For a coordinated management of these frequencies, the regulatory authorities in the two cities have just concluded an agreement.…

Consultations for a Holy Nation of the Union ... Several newspapers in Kinshasa are commenting this week on possible conclusions or speculating on their results. Under the headline "Assume divorce or temperament", the daily newspaper Le Potentiel writes that Félix Antoine Tshisekedi will have to make a choice at the end of the Palais de la Nation's consultation, which, according to the newspaper, is facing strong tensions with its allies in the FCC. For this daily, the fifth president of the DRC is investing in a high…

Two Sukhoi, Russian-made fighter jets belonging to the Angolan army, were at an air show in the sky over Kinshasa on Friday. These military maneuvers took place four days after Félix Tshisekedi's stay in Angola. The Congolese head of state spoke for a few hours on Monday, November 16, with his Angolan counterpart. The military exercise on Friday was intended to "enlarge the perfect understanding between the two air forces", the Congolese army explains. According to the cabinet of Félix Tshisekedi, this air meeting is "the…