Congo-Kinshasa: Déjà Vu - the DRC's Perpetual Cycles of Hope and Despair

By Peter Fabricius
‘Can new leadership transform the DRC’s fortunes?’ was the title of a seminar this week presented by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). It was a good question.
Although, as one of the speakers, Daniel Mukoko Samba, deputy prime minister and minister of the budget in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 2012 and 2014, observed rather wryly – it is a perennial question.
Speaking with the benefit of a former insider – and still one, in a way, as he is currently a member of President Félix Tshisekedi’s African Union chair team – Mukoko recalled that the same question is asked every time there is new leadership in the DRC.

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