KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila on Wednesday pledged to appoint a new prime minister in the next two days, in line with a stalled December peace deal struck with the opposition.
"The prime minister will absolutely have to be named within 48 hours," Kabila said in a much-awaited speech to MPs and senators on the state of a December 31 power-sharing agreement, yet to be implemented.
The deal brokered by the influential Catholic church aimed to avoid a full-blown crisis in the vast restive nation following Kabila’s failure to step down at the end of his second and final mandate mid-December.
It enabled Kabila to remain in ****** pending elections in late 2017 in tandem with a transitional body and a new premier, to be chosen within opposition ranks.
But putting the deal in place hit a major hurdle in early February with the death of veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who had gathered together the opposition in a coalition called "Assemblement".
04-06-2017, 01:18 PM
Kabila to name new PM
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila on Wednesday pledged to appoint a new prime minister in the next two days, in line with a stalled December peace deal struck with the opposition.
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