The Congolese Press Agency (ACP) reports in its flagship dispatch that the security situation in the east of the DRC was on the agenda of discussions between the Head of State Félix Tshisekedi and the ambassadors of Belgium, the USA, and France, who were successively received at the African Union City in Kinshasa.

The last to be received, Bruno Aubert (France), stated that an update was given on the projects initiated since President Macron's visit last year to Kinshasa and on the upcoming trip of Félix Tshisekedi to Paris.

"Kinshasa one step away from a historic program with the IMF," announces AfricaNews. Indeed, Kinshasa has come a long way in the last three years. The country is today one step away from having its very first formal program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

With the start of the 6th and final review, the DRC is more than ever at the gates of a formal program with the IMF. "It's very symbolic to conclude a program because we live in an increasingly globalized world. All the attention of the global economic community is focused on the countries that perform," said Nicolas Kazadi, Minister of Finance.

Under the headline: "Bavon Banza accused of blocking five months of salaries of SAFRICAS employees," Forum des as reports that in the middle of his campaign for the governor's seat of Haut-Katanga, with the election scheduled for Monday, April 29, Bavon Banza, regional director of the company SAFRICAS and gubernatorial candidate, is accused by a group of employees, who have requested anonymity, of having blocked their salaries for five months. But that’s not all. These employees also charge him with not having demonstrated clarity and profitable management at the head of the Grand Katanga region.

Le Phare dedicates its lead headline to the formation of the government. This newspaper notes that, contrary to the schedule it had set for itself, namely to consult political parties and groupings of the Sacred Union of the Nation from April 13 to 19, 2024, with a view to forming the government, Prime Minister Judith Suminwa has fallen into the habit of "extensions."

Indeed, since Monday, April 22, she has expanded her circle of interlocutors to include delegates from trade bodies, civil society, human rights defense organizations, women's movements, youth, etc.

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