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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has kicked off a preventive yellow fever vaccination campaign targeting more than 16 million people, APA learned on Wednesday.
A total of 410 MPs out of 412 present during Monday’s session in parliament in Kinshasa approved the government of the Sacred Union formed on 12 April.
President Felix Tshisekedi has been slow to put in place his new government. In an interview with APA, his compatriot Ivan Vangu Ngimbi, a lecturer at the Faculty of Social, Political and Administrative Sciences of the University of Kinshasa, deciphered the situation.
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday unveiled a 56-member government.
The Congolese head of state was received on Monday, March 29 by the Emir of Qatar, Tamin Bin Hamad at the Prince’s Palace in Doha.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet has expressed concern about the resurgence of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with nearly 3,000 reported deaths in 2020.
Two months after the dissolution of former Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga’s cabinet, no new government has been formed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The ambassador of Italy in Kinshasa, DRC was shot dead on Monday in an armed attack targeting a World Food Program (WFP) convoy in the country’s eastern city of Goma.
At least sixty people have drowned and several hundred others remain missing after a shipwreck on the Congo River near Kinshasa on Sunday evening.
President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge as the new Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.