In late March 2017, Senator Florentin Mokonda Bonza, member of the opposition, and Lambert Mende Omalanga, Minister of Information, took part in the Africa Faith & Justice Network’s (AFJN) information and advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, aimed at supporting the full implementation of the agreement brokered by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on December 31, 2016. Click here to read our interview with Senator Mokonda. You can read a French version here too. Please note that Senator Mokonda’s views do not represent Africa Faith & Justice Network’s views on the political crisis in the DRC.
Click here to also read our interview with Information Minister Lambert Mende two months earlier and here to learn more about the elections’ technicalities explained by the chairman of the National Electoral Communion Mr. Corneil Nangaa