DRC President Tshisekedi’s fight with Kabila is critical for electric vehicle industry
DRC President Tshisekedi voiced his frustration at the slow, difficult task of removing Kabila’s influence from key positions in the country.
DRC President Tshisekedi voiced his frustration at the slow, difficult task of removing Kabila’s influence from key positions in the country.
Data sourced from the country’s election commission’s servers show that another opposition party leader, Martin Fayulu won by several millions and that Felix Tshisekedi who was crowned as the winner, was a distant second.
Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Martin Fayulu appealed his defeat in last month’s presidential election, while outgoing head of state Joseph Kabila’s coalition claimed a crushing win in the parliamentary polls.
The DRC has defended Dan Gertler’s business dealings in the country, five days after he was linked to a bribery investigation by US authorities.
Corruption in high places is Africa’s biggest curse. It is the ultimate mis-allocation of resources and condemns Africans to remain the world’s poorest people.
Tens of thousands of people rallied in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital calling on President Joseph Kabila to step down.
Police fired shots and teargas to break up a crowd before a political rally by opposition leader and potential presidential candidate Moise Katumbi in the DRC on Sunday.
Khulubuse Zuma’s official spokesman’s public response: “He does not and never held any offshore bank account”.
The only good news for South Africans in the explosive #PanamaPapers scandal is that their deeply flawed President Jacob Zuma is not the only global leader trading influence for financial gain.
Security forces in the DRC arrested one of the country’s leading opposition leaders, two days before a planned general strike by opponents of Joseph Kabila.