- RDC: ELECTION DU BUREAU DE L’ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE Evariste Boshab, un proche de Kabila, a été élu président de l’Assemblée nationale, en remplacement de Vital Kamerhe, jugé trop critique. Nouveaux heurts à l’Est. Evariste Boshab, proche allié du président Joseph Kabila, a été élu samedi au poste de président de l’Assemblée nationale de République démocratique du Congo (RDC) par les députés à une écrasante majorité Evariste Boshab remplace Vital Kamerhe, qui avait démissionné le mois dernier à la suite d’un désaccord avec le chef de l’Etat concernant le Rwanda. Ex-conseiller de Kabila et cofondateur du parti présidentiel, Vital Kamerhe avait critiq…

- 25 /06 / 2008 The HIV/ AIDS Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has more than one million people estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS (1.1 million as of the end of 2003) . Although the DRC’s HIV/AIDS prevalence rate (the percent of people living with the disease), is still relatively low (4.2%) compared to the sub-Saharan African region overall and to some of the region’s hardest hit countries, this low-income country is in a post-conflict period and faces numerous challenges including HIV/AIDS The Government of the DRC established a National AIDS Control Program in 1987 and has a Nati…

- 30/01 /2007 HIV/AIDS is not the only health crisis facing DRC. MMMMM The installation of a transitional government in June of 2003 marks a period of significant change for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region as a whole. Since the early 1990s the African Great Lakes region, which can be defined as DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania has been convulsed by genocide, civil wars, inter-state conflict and flawed democratic transitions. According to USAID “In mid-2004, the Congolese Assembly for Democracy (RCD/ Goma) came close to withdrawing from the Transition Government (TG), but was ultimately persuaded to remain engaged. It…