DRC: UN, Diplomats, press, clerk, a powerful lobby in the service of V. Kamerhe

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Kamerhe and president fatshi

The so-called “100-day” trial, which will have its first verdict today Saturday June 20, 2020, will go from rebound to rebound. Proof of a real machine in the service of the now former Director of Cabinet Vital Kamerhe who drains a panoply of statesmen, politicians, lawyers, magistrates, presses insistently to avoid him at all costs a conviction. The final attempt by the clerk of the constitutional court to stay today’s verdict is just a tree hiding the forest. Pressure on Félix Tshisekedi Since the start of the investigation at the…

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DRC: Kinshasa, COVID-19, deconfinement, Gentiny Ngobila plays the sorcerer’s apprentice!

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Gentiny Ngobila

The Governor of the City of Kinshasa Gentiny Ngobila Mbaka, spends day after his inability to govern the city of Kinshasa. The posture of the Bourgmestre or of a mayor would have been favorable to him in view of his meager achievements which are almost confined to the only commune of Gombe. RAGE (Autonomous Republic of the Gombe) The city of Kinshasa seems vast in the vision of the current Governor of the city of Kinshasa. Almost all of these measures, “Kin Bopeto, Closure of the Central Market, Containment, COVID-19,…

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MANGAYA column: WEB summary for the day Friday 12 June 2020

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Mangaya Pitshou

The president of the national assembly, Jeanine Mabunda asked the government for an additional $ 2,000 to the emoluments of the deputies and an upward revision of 50% of the envelope allocated to the operation of the office of the national assembly. 🚨 🔴Presidency 🇨🇩 I wish a happy birthday to the president of the republic Félix Tshisekedi Antoine Tshilombo 🇨🇩🎂🎂🎂 “The Head of State who closely follows the ups and downs of the vacation to the vice-presidency of the National Assembly, is concerned with the stability of the institutions.…

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MANGAYA column: WEB summary of the day for Thursday 11 June 2020

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Mangaya Pitshou

🔴Presidency 🇨🇩 – In order to reassure African economies facing the health crisis due to the Covid 19 the Head of State 🇨🇩 Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi took part this Thursday by videoconference, in the Meeting of the Bureau of the African Union chaired by Cyril Ramaphosa. 🔴Justice 🇨🇩 – The judgment will be rendered on Saturday June 20, 2020. The three defendants (Kamerhe, Jammal and Muhima) claim their innocence. – I thank rtnc 📺 for the retransmission of the trial for more than 11 hours 9:40 a.m. to 9:20 p.m. ⏰…

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Death of Abdelmalek Droukdel in Mali: the French army delivers the details of the operation

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Abdelmalek Droukdel, head of the al-Qaeda terrorist group in the Islamic Maghreb, was killed by French soldiers on June 3 in northern Mali. The military operation that led to this elimination took place in the Tessalit region, not far from the Algerian border. This Thursday morning, the French General Staff unveiled the story. This Wednesday, June 3, in the early afternoon, in a desert area and difficult to approach, everything went very quickly. While the intelligence services, supported by the American ally, had known for two days that there was…

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Bishop Mukuna calls for media coverage of his trial against Mamie Tshibola

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Pastor Mukuna

The President of the Kalamu District Court has just received the request from Bishop Pascal Mukuna, currently in preventive detention at Makala Central Prison, and the subject of legal proceedings against the heads of rape, death threats and retention of title deeds, all articulated by his follower Mamie Tshibola, seeking media coverage of his trial. The legal representative of the Christian Assembly of Kinshasa and president of the sports club “Renaissance du Congo”, has, through his counsel, Me Richard Bondo, lawyer at the Kinshasa-Gombe Bar, wrote to the number one…

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“Due to lack of evidence”, the UN was finally seized on June 9 in the Kamerhe case

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Kamerhe Vital

It was finally on June 9 that French lawyer and former president of Paris Pierre-Olivier Sur (“POS”) seized the UN working group on arbitrary detention concerning his client, Vital Kamerhe, director cabinet of President Félix Tshisekedi. Alongside Congolese lawyers Jean-Marie Kabengela Ilunga, honorary dean of the bar of Kinshasa, and Kabila Muana Kabila, POS, of the firm Fischer, Tandeau de Marsac, Sur & associés (FTMS), claims that it has not been proven that the detention of Vital Kamerhe is a measure necessary for the continuation of the investigation on suspicion…

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The SMS that precipitated the fall of Jean-Marc Kabund, Tshisekedi’s right-hand man

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Jean - Marc Kabund

Behind the dismissal on May 25 of the first vice-president of the National Assembly, Jean-Marc Kabund, hides Kabila’s anger against the one who is also acting president of the UDPS.Jean-Marc Kabund, Acting President of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress. It was a simple SMS that played the role of a real detonator. In a message sent in mid-May to a relative of Joseph Kabila, Jean-Marc Kabund, acting president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS, the party of President Félix Tshisekedi), openly complained of walks like…

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Biography of the Attorney General at the Constitutional Court, Jean-Paul MUKOLO KOKESHA

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Jean Paul Mukolo

Born in Tshikapa on September 08, 1960, Province of Kasaï – Central. Graduated in public law at the University of Kinshasa followed by a master’s degree before becoming a doctoral student in the same field at the University of South Africa where he learned to speak English fluently. MUKOLO, already 19, anxious to transmit knowledge to the youngest, began teaching at the Bunkonde Institute in the Kasai Central Province from 1979 until 1981, then professor at the University of Kinshasa, since 1993. Married and father of five, he speaks French…

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The “Antwerp connection” activates around Tshisekedi after the fall of Vital Kamerhe

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Succeeding Dan Gertler, Joseph Kabila’s favorite diamond dealer, it is a Belgian-Israeli network which has gradually been established in the entourage of President Félix Tshisekedi to manage, in addition to several security contracts, relations between Kinshasa and Tel Aviv. The arrest on April 8 of the all-powerful Félix Tshisekedi chief of staff, Vital Kamerhe, suspected of personal ambitions, provoked a real stir in the presidential entourage and came to upset the fragile overlapping of interests contradictory around the Congolese president. Sharing, as best they can, the management of security contracts…

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