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CEO Jérémie Kazingufu launched Paper Bags back in 2017. His recyclable packaging business earned him a prize on Saturday. He was among the 10 laureates of the Challenge Entreprise competition organised by the Congolese government and the Congolese Business Federation.
CEO Jérémie Kazingufu launched Paper Bags back in 2017. His recyclable packaging business earned him a prize on Saturday. He was among the 10 laureates of the Challenge Entreprise competition organised by the Congolese government and the Congolese Business Federation.
December 28, 2020: The UN is still uncertain when the peacekeeping force will be withdrawn from Congo. The current plan is to withdraw by province. Currently peacekeepers are present in six provinces plus the capital Kinshasa. Three provinces receive most of the peacekeepers’ attention because they are the most violent: North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, all located in eastern Congo. This month, before the December 6 announcement that Congo’s governing coalition had collapsed, MONUSCO confirmed that it plans to withdraw all peacekeepers and police from two provinces in the Kasai region by June 2021 and from Tanganyika province in June 2022. UN analysts anticipate trouble in the Kivus and Ituri well beyond December 2022. Some advisers and support staff would remain to work with the national police. As December ends, it is reasonable to question the decision to withdraw any UN peacekeepers until the Congo government’s political situa
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KINSHASA Democratic Republic of Congo’s main private business lobby replaced a close ally of former president Joseph Kabila as its chairman on Wednesday, further weakening Kabila in his power struggle with President Felix Tshisekedi.
The board of the influential Congolese Business Federation (FEC) voted to elect Dieudonne Kasembo, a logistics company executive, over Albert Yuma, who had served as chairman for the past 15 years.
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Yuma’s loss marks a fresh blow for Kabila, whose chosen successor lost the 2018 presidential election to Tshisekedi but had tried to maintain his influence through his political alliance’s control of majorities in parliament.