The Congolese Press Agency (ACP) announces that more than one thousand seven hundred civilian and military detainees were released on Tuesday from the Central Prison of Makala and that of Ndolo in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"(…) This report includes all the details. What we can take away from it is that the commission has succeeded in releasing over 1700 civilian and military detainees combined from the Central Prison of Makala and that of Ndolo," declared Justin Kibamba, president of the Court of Cassation, who heads the commission in charge of decongesting the capital's detention centers in the DRC.

"We cannot release for the sake of releasing. There are convicts who must serve their sentences. We did the work according to standards. And the result is there. The essential work has been done," he stated during the presentation of the report to the Minister of State for Justice, concerning the commission that was established to resolve the issue of overcrowding in Kinshasa’s prisons.

Forum des as reports that a new variant of the monkeypox virus has just been discovered in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to a preprint study, Belgian and Congolese researchers have identified a new strain of the Monkey Pox virus that could be transmitted through sexual contact, announces this study relayed by the Congolese Press Agency. Found in the mining town of Kamituga, in South Kivu province, this variant is spreading among miners and sex workers. An alert has been issued to stem its propagation in the DRC and neighboring countries.

"The way of the cross continues for motorists," notes Le Phare. Indeed, despite all the explanations provided to the public on Monday by the Minister of Hydrocarbons, Didier Budimbu, about the financial sacrifices made by the government to get Sep-Congo to regularize the supply of petroleum products to service stations, the situation seems to be getting worse in Kinshasa.

Contrary to the expectations of motorists, the number of fuel sales points is only decreasing.

Some have even spent entire nights, since the last weekend, at service stations, without being served.

AfricaNews reports on an ultimatum of 48 hours given to Christophe Mboso. For more than a month, deputies have been on forced vacation, with no activities in the Hemicycle. Nothing is moving, not even the plenaries in the National Assembly while the electoral calendar of this institution provides for the election of the members of the permanent office.

In a letter addressed on Monday to his fellow national elected representatives, Deputy Didier Kamundu issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the speaker of the lower chamber for the resumption of the process of establishing the permanent office. Otherwise, the deputies will draw all the consequences.

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