« After the Sacred Union, the Prime Minister consults other components of the majority », reports the Congolese Press Agency this Monday morning. Indeed, Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka has begun consultations with other groups within the National Assembly, after having consulted the Sacred Union of the Nation.

Beyond cutting costs, integrity and competence are the essential criteria of the Judith Suminwa government, writes the agency reporter. According to her entourage, she has given herself seven days (from April 12 to 19) to complete her consultations in preparation for forming the new government.

In the same vein, FORUM DES AS announces political formations aligning with Judith Suminwa's schedule. The post-Sama Lukonde government is still in Judith Suminwa's pipeline. The Prime Minister appointed on April 1 has been consulting since Saturday, April 13 to find, among the political formations, the personalities who demonstrate competence and integrity, who will undoubtedly be on the list of possible ministers.

As for the publication of the government team, the Congolese must still be patient, as can be read in the columns of Forum des AS.

Addressing the same topic, LE PHARE headlines: « After Kabuya… Judith Suminwa consults in turn ». In fact, after the informer Kabuya, it is announced that a round of consultations, led by the new Prime Minister, Judith Suminwa.

Appointed to the post by the head of state on April 1, she has given herself 7 days, from April 13 to 19, 2024, to meet with representatives of the mosaic of parties and political groupings that make up the Sacred Union of the Nation, the mega political family of the President of the Republic.

For its part, La PROSPERITE reports that 37 parties and political groupings are expected at the consultations. Indeed, the agenda is already set, the invitations sent, and the work sessions announced as well. The aim: the formation of the new government resulting from the elections of December 20, 2023.

Judith Suminwa has given herself this whole week until April 19, 2024, to wrap up before moving on to serious matters, which, logically, should allow her to form her team, after she has submitted it to the approval of the Head of State, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo.

From another angle of the news, the colleague revisits the material errors in the national legislative disputes with this headline: « DRC: the Constitutional Court rules today ». The Constitutional Court, under the leadership of its president, Dieudonné Kamuleta Badibanga, confirms the holding, this Monday, April 15, 2024, of its hearing on the correction of material errors that occurred in the national legislative election disputes.

According to the chief clerk, François Aundja-Isia Wa Bosolo, this public hearing will be conducted with the utmost transparency, in the Marcel Lihau room of the State Council, in the Gombe municipality.

Africa News headlines in one of its banner stories, « Cardinal Ambongo humiliated ». The Archbishop of Kinshasa denied VIP lounge at N’djili International Airport, the church cries scandal.

As he was preparing to board a flight to Rome, Italy, where he is expected to attend an important meeting of the Council of Cardinals who assist the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in the Church Reform project. Despite his properly obtained diplomatic passport, Fridolin Ambongo was curiously prevented from accessing the airport's VIP lounge, to the great surprise of numerous witnesses, it can be read in the lines of this newspaper.

Gisèle Mbuyi