President Felix Tshisekedi lays a wreath at the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site, report0s the Congolese News Agency (ACP). According to the communication service of the Presidency of the Republic, the presidential couple visited the Eben Ezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King, a leading figure of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, was a pastor. Africanews dedicates its flagship title to the draft budget finance 2020. "US 7 billion, the first budget of the Fatshi era," the tabloid reveals. The preparation of the preliminary draft budget is well underway. It amounts to CDF 11,853.4 billion, the equivalent of USD 7 billion balanced between revenue and expenditure.
Jean-Baudouin Mayo, the Vice Prime Minister in charge of the budget reminded during the council of ministers of Friday, September 27 that the amount set by the first post-alternation government was retained on macroeconomic indicators base. As soon as it is adopted, with or without amendment at the next meeting of the Council of Ministers, this draft Budget 2020 will be sent to the National Assembly for its consideration before going to the Senate for second reading. Forum Des As is interested in the declaration of the family patrimony by the members of the government. For this diary, it is a simple ritual without a control at the expiration of the mandate.
The newspaper reports that the members of the Ilunkamba government each have only six days to submit to the Constitutional Court, the list of their family patrimony. The ultimatum runs until Sunday, October 6th. This is recalled by Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, in his communication made during 3rd meeting of the Council of Ministers held Friday, September 27 in Kinshasa. With regard to the requirement of the written declaration of their family patrimony made to the members of the government, some insinuate that it participates in the fight against the impunity. For the sake of being serious, Forum Des As thinks. But if the control should be done only upstream and not downstream a priori and not a posteriori, more than one analyst deduced while the article 99 of the Constitution is neither more nor less, a simple ritual.
"Bukavu: no schools ... no masses! ", Le PHARE mentions on its front page. This newspaper reports that the strike of the teachers of the Catholic network of Bukavu, launched at the beginning of last week and obviously instrumentalized by the provincial hierarchy of this religious confession risks to turn against it. Indeed, to express their dissatisfaction with the strikers and their godparents, visibly opposed to the free basic education, as desired by the Head of State and implemented by the government, the parents of students of this city of Sud Kivu reacted, the last weekend by the prohibition and the boycott of the masses. They received massive support from both Catholic and Protestant parishioners.
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