Joseph kabila. The government has been accused of halting preparations for elections for over a year to replace him. The hearing will come to order. Im very, i think the committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman, and roys joins, and i thank him for his leadershiphi on africa, havg once served as chairman of this subcommittee. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterday important briefing with nikki haley, our ambassador to United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the dr congo so iq, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct election one year ago this month. In order to achieve the required transition of political powers y december 19. 19th. However after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government of the drcc failed told elections last year and provide on a constitutional provision that president Joseph Kabila could not step dow
There was testimony on the budget request and where theyre working to find more efficiencies in certain programs. This hearing is about 90 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you for being here. Really deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa. And where the challenges are, where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget that has passed the house clearly indicates that there were some differences of opinion as to how much and where we should be spending that money. And i think we have come to a consensus at least on the republican side that extraordinarily important programs like pep far, the emergency plan for aid relief, a number of refugee plans and a lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like tuberculosis need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers, especially to wome
About. Jay gray is live outside the courthouse where jurors have just found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty in the Boston Marathon bombing. Jay . Reporter jim pat, guilty on all 30 counts, including the 17 which carried with them the possibility of the death penalty. That guilty verdict now triggering the next phase in this trial, which is the penalty phase. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for just over 11 hours over the last couple of days before reaching their decision this afternoon. It was announced and they were released by the judge. They will return for the penalty phase expected to start sometime early next week. What will we see in that phase . More testimony. More evidence as well. And likely more of an exclamation from the defense team here, which has said all along that, while they admit Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a part of the bombing and he should be punished he was not the mast mastermind mastermind. They say it was tamerlan, his older brother, who planned, purchase
Jamyra gallmon before the incident that she was with gallmon after the murder, and that she benefitted from the items stolen from david messerschmitts room. Last week Jamyra Gallmon was charged with murder. According to court documents, messerschmitt was looking online for other men. Gallmon posing as a man went to his room at the donovan hotel. She told police she went there to rob him. It turned into a case of murder. Now, Dominique Johnson is expected to be officially charged here at superior court tomorrow. Live in northwest, pat collins, news4. Were tracking a line of showers and embedded thunderstorms. If youre looking to the western sky, here is a live look at our reston camera as we look off to the west there where the skies are darkening. Let me show you on storm team 4 radar, the line of showers and embedded dded thunderstorms you can see it advancing eastward. While we dont have a watch out for our area, we will see i think pockets of moderate and heavy rain with the potenti
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