According to Kinshasa Radio-Trottoir, Joseph Kabila is eyeing twoBandundu Province technocrats for premiership of the oncominggovernment: either 1) His own deputy chief of staff in charge ofpolitical, legal and socio-cultural issues, Marie-Louise MayumaKasende; or 2) Olivier Kamitatu, the current Planning Minister.Both are MP-elects from Bandundu Province. (Kasende's sister,Joséphine-Charlotte Mayuma Kala, several times minister under Mobutuand current vice-predident of the party Union des Libéraux DémocratesChrétiens (ULDC), recently failed...
Monday, 27 February 2012
Radio-Trottoir Feed: Kabila eyeing 2 Bandundu Province technocrats for premiership
Posted on 13:54 by Unknown
Sunday, 26 February 2012
End of Teodorin Obiang's bacchanalias on Avenue Foch with record impoundment of "ill-gotten" property
Posted on 04:12 by Unknown
Amid frantic protests voiced by Equatoguinean authorities in "utterindignation" in the face of "illegitimate persecution," according tothe Parisian daily Libération, after 10 days of executing a searchwarrant, the French body aptly called "Office Central pour laRépression de la Grande Délinquance Financière (OCRGDF)"--centraloffice for the prosecution of financial high crimes--impounded thispast Thursday "200 m3 of valuables, i.e. the equivalent of threeshipping containers" from the posh 6-story (5 French stories bydiscounting the ground floor)...
Friday, 24 February 2012
1) Acting Speaker's residence ransacked in Bas-Congo; 2) 26 UDPS MPs break ranks with leadership; and 3) National Assembly: 11 validation commissions
Posted on 06:07 by Unknown
1) Acting Speaker's residence ransacked in Bas-CongoThe Congolese official news agency ACP reports that on Tuesday theresidence of Acting Speaker of the National Assembly Timothée KomboNkisi at Madimba (Lukaya District; Bas-Congo Province) was vandalizedand thoroughly ransacked by "inciviques," that is, citizens devoid ofany sense of civic duty! (That adjective used as noun is part of DRCpolitical lingo. It's a catch-all term to describe all forms ofantisocial behavior and political dissent--from corruption to"Mai-Mai" militia activities in the...
Saturday, 18 February 2012
UDPS excludes Acting Speaker Timothée Kombo Nkisi
Posted on 13:52 by Unknown
It didn't take that long... UDPS just announced this evening it hasexcluded acting Speaker Timothée Kombo Nkisi from the party.The consitutional problem, for the UDPS, happens to be thefollowing... If an MP resigns from her or his party, she'sautomatically kicked out of Parliament. If however an MP is kicked outof her party (without her consent), she keeps her seat!A stupid move by the UDPS, if you'd ask me... Number One: It ensuesfrom the above that Nkisi is keeping his seat and, hence, the interimSpeakership... Number Two: In the DRC, people...
1) Amb James Entwistle says US recognizes Kabila as Prez; 2) Farcical repetition of history; and 3) Reassembly of Parliament
Posted on 07:10 by Unknown
1) Amb James Entwistle says US recognizes Kabila as PrezOn Wednesday, February 15, in the Q and A part of his press briefing,US kinshasa Ambassador James F. Entwistle stated (in French): "Theposition of the United States is clear: We recognize Joseph Kabila asthe President of the Democratic Republic of Congo for the next fiveyears. We hope that the irregularities noted on 28 November 2011 willbe avoided in the upcoming provincial, local, and other elections" (mytranslation).In the presentation half of his press conference, Amb Entwistle saidthe...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Gen Yehudit Ben-Natan (Israeli female senior officer)'s antedated response to Sen Rick Santorum's fake chivalry
Posted on 14:43 by Unknown
Last week's end, in order to stymie the massive flak he got from hiscomments on the inadvisability of the presence of female warriors(among male warriors) in frontline combat situations, Republicanpresidential hopeful Rick Santorum "clarified" his statement bytelling NBC Today's host Ann Curry:"The issue is … how men react to seeing women in harm's way orpotentially being injured or in a vulnerable position and not beconcerned about accomplishing the mission."Well, two years ago Gen Yehudit Ben-Natan, Israeli female seniorofficer and a "feminist...
DRC Prez comes out of seclusion to appear at funeral wake of MP Augustin Katumba Mwanke in Kinshasa
Posted on 08:21 by Unknown
Radio-Trottoir speculations about Joseph Kabila's whereabouts anddeclining health came to a screeching halt in the downpour of Mondayafternoon when the prez came out of seclusion to appear at the funeralwake of his long-time aide, friend, and fellow Katangan MP AugustinKatumba Mwanke. The wake was held at the Kinshasa posh villa of thedeceased. Mwanke died in a plane crash on Sunday, at Bukavu airport(the crewmembers of the doomed flight are reported to be American).TV footage of Kabila's reappearance also featured Israeli mogul DanGertler sitting...
Friday, 10 February 2012
A tale of two separate beatings: 1) UDPS Secretary General Jacquemain Shabani beaten by immigration agents; and 2) Gen Tango-Fort orders beating of Koffi Olomide
Posted on 07:03 by Unknown
1) UDPS Secretary General Jacquemain Shabani beaten by immigrationagents at N'Djili International AirportUDPS Secretary General Jacquemain Shabani, who was about to board aplane bound for Europe, was arrested by immigration officials in thenight of Tuesday, February 7, at Kinshasa N'Djili InternationalAirport. He was released at 2 AM Kinshasa Time (GMT + 1) on Wednesday,February 8, long after the departure of the plane.According to Communication and Media Minister Lambert Mende, officialsfound in Shabani's possession a passport that didn't belong...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
AFRICOM to train a special forces battalion in Kin amid growing skepticism of top brass
Posted on 09:53 by Unknown
The Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa, SamuelLaeuchli, met last weekend DRC Defense and Veterans Minister, CharlesMwando Nsimba.DCM Laeuchli told the media AFRICOM is planning on training (at anunspecified date) a special forces battalion in Kinshasa. Which isodd, insofar as there's already an AFRICOM training center atKisangani.A senior FARDC HQ staff officer to whom I spoke today about theAFRICOM project was particularly incensed. He strongly believesthere's a conspiracy afoot to weaken DRC in the "looming water wars."According...
My Android phone stolen: Beware of 419 Nigerian-type scams using my name
Posted on 04:27 by Unknown
Depressing! My sleek Android Samsung Infuse was stolen on publictransport in Kinshasa. It did unfortunately contain links to 3 of myemail accounts, to my Twitter page, as well as an address book withmany contacts.I scrambled however to change my passwords as soon as the theft occurred.Should anyone of you get an email or a frantic phone call allegingthat I'm stranded in the boonies and in need of a splodge of dollars,it'd be a blatant 419 Nigerian-type sc...
Saturday, 4 February 2012
A cabal in progress: Greek-Congolese opposition politico Pierre-Jacques Chalupa jailed for "fraudulent" nationality
Posted on 10:27 by Unknown
As the saw goes, politics is a cut-throat business. And Congolesepolitics is even meaner and dirtier than mean politics in many otherplaces. And in this particular case, it has a fecal whiff!Consider the cabal now in progress against businessman turnedpolitician Pierre-Jacques Chalupa, a Greek immigrant who has lived inKinshasa so long he's now a Congolese through and through. With, ashis lawyer claims, immigration documents to prove he's one! And evenif he didn't have those documents, the man got nowhere else to go: hisentire adult life was spent...
A cabal in progress: Greek-Congolese opposition politico Pierre-Jacques Chalupa jailed for "fraudulent" nationality
Posted on 10:24 by Unknown
As the saw goes, politics is a cut-throat business. And Congolesepolitics is even meaner and dirtier than mean politics in many otherplaces. And in this particular case, it has a fecal whiff!Consider the cabal now in progress against businessman turnedpolitician Pierre-Jacques Chalupa, a Greek immigrant who has lived inKinshasa so long he's now a Congolese through and through. With, ashis lawyer claims, immigration documents to prove he's one! And evenif he didn't have those documents, the man got nowhere else to go: hisentire adult life was spent...
A cabal in progress: Greek-Congolese opposition politico Pierre-Jacques Chalupa jailed for "fraudulent" nationality
Posted on 10:21 by Unknown
As the saw goes, politics is a cut-throat business. And Congolesepolitics is even meaner and dirtier than mean politics in many otherplaces. And in this particular case, it has a fecal whiff!Consider the cabal now in progress against businessman turnedpolitician Pierre-Jacques Chalupa, a Greek immigrant who has lived inKinshasa so long he's now a Congolese through and through. With, ashis lawyer claims, immigration documents to prove he's one! And evenif he didn't have those documents, the man got nowhere else to go: hisentire adult life was spent...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
CENI wraps up publication of election results
Posted on 06:24 by Unknown
CENI wrapped up the publication of legislative election results latein the evening of yesterday, Wednesday, February 1.According to AFP, Joseph Kabila's cartel of political parties won aclear majority, with 260 seats out of a total of 500 seats.Within the "Presidential Majority," PPRD, Kabila's own party, won 62seats, thus confirming its position as the country's strongestparty--though it is somehow apparently weakened when compared to the111 seats it won in the 2006 legislative elections.I say "apparently" since just before the elections PPRD...
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