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In a letter addressed to the Secretary General of JED, on November 3, 2017, the day after the publication of the Report on the state of freedom of press and expression in DR Congo, the Director General ai of the National Insurance Company (SONAS), Carole Agito, solicits the “understanding of JED” for the removal of her name from the list of “torturers of freedom of information”. For the sake of “fairness and justice,” she suggests.

In its 2017 report, JED publishes, among other things, a list containing the names of some fifteen personalities presented as the “killers of information in 2017”.

Ms. Carole Agito is on this list because of her involvement in the arrest and detention of journalist Serge Kabongo for about 6 months in the Makala Central Prison, which accused him of embezzlement.

In her letter to JED, Ms. Carole Agito recalls the ins and outs of this case that had pitted him against journalist Serge Kabongo, director of the newspaper “Métro News”. She claims to have, in her time, and to show her good faith, “verbally withdrawn her complaint,” as a result of a letter of apology sent by the journalist from prison.

She also said that she renounced her civil interests by avoiding appearing before the Gombe Peace Court in charge of this case.

While taking note of this right of reply, JED urges Mrs. Carole Agito to privilege from now on the ways of the professional conciliation, every time that she feels aggrieved by a writing of press.

As a reminder, Serge Kabongo, director of the newspaper “Metro News”, published in Kinshasa, was arrested on January 6, 2017, without any mandate by a group of plainclothes agents, accompanied by the press officer of Sonas who had dragged him into an ambush. The journalist was detained for approximately six months in Makala Central Prison, for publishing in the No. 36 edition of his newspaper on January 5, 2017, an article entitled: “Scandal in the direction of the Sonas: $ 1,300,000 diverted “.

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Leadership according to the model Jesus Christ: the holistic salvation of man ”. This is the central theme of the 13th Prayer Luncheon, held this Saturday, November 11, 2017, in Kinshasa, at the Pullman Grand Hotel. In front of several distinguished guests, the main organisers of the institutions of the Republic as well as many visitors from other African countries and the world, Azarias Ruberwa Manywa, former Vice-President of the Republic under the Empire 1 +4 and, currently, Minister of State for Decentralisation, took the opportunity to invite all Congolese political leaders to draw inspiration from the model of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Lords. Moreover, with regard to peace, love of neighbour and charity, he recommended, the model of Jesus Christ is the only one capable of helping this country, R & D. Congo, to take off again differently, taking a new momentum. He particularly implored the grace of Jesus Christ for the peaceful electoral process, the one whose deadlines were recently unveiled by the Electoral Central. This would certainly make it possible to demarcate the political actors democratically, at the end of the next elections. According to him, lasting peace is about the will of everyone, of giving priority to the general interest, preserving the unity of the country and promoting collective well-being.

Back to the centrality of God?

In Congo DRC, it is since more than a decade, indeed, that the leaders meet in the most varied fields of the national life. Members of Parliament, the Government and other institutions, those of civil society, the religious world, businessmen and diplomats usually meet around Jesus Christ to discuss the socio-political situation. and economic, different multiform crises that, decidedly, no longer require only human efforts but, rather, the return to the centrality of God in the daily life of the Congolese people to hope for an ultimate response to the problems that Congo DRC is today confronted.

Under the auspices of the Honorary Vice-President of the Republic and currently Minister of State for Decentralisation, Mr. Azarias Ruberwa, this prayer luncheon was also aimed at putting the entire electoral process, which he no longer wishes, to elsewhere, to see being fought, in the hands of the Lord so that this country, finally, take a considerable momentum towards a true peace and democracy.

Azarias Ruberwa has also asked many questions about the current situation which, after all, makes the Congolese people more peaceful.

Why, he says, in a country that is home to about 90% of Christians and a huge geographic potential, emergence remains a real equation that no one has been able to solve since the dawn of time? He asked himself. Blocking of institutions, multi-sectoral crises, twisting of the electoral process, etc. Is it not time to invoke the Almighty? In any case, he believes that there are more and more socio-political leaders who, today, have become aware of their responsibilities and have decided to take the destiny of Congo DRC in hands, by applying the program of action of Jesus Christ, to manage to preach the love, the goodness, the charity, the sacrifice to the place of the Congolese people, to get it out of the quagmire.

Yet, thanks to the vision and values ​​of good leaders, a comprehensive work between the Government, civil society and businessmen, the country can develop in record time, have supported, more than one At this 13th prayer lunch, most of the participants came from other countries of the world.

Live every day like Sunday …

In front of the Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala, the Ministers of Labor and Social Security and Land Affairs, the President of the Electoral Center, Corneille Nangaa, the Honorable Members Laurent Batumona and José Engbanda and, of course, several personalities, both national and international, this lunch had to bring in prayer for the Congolese nation, Africa, the world and the national leaders in order to make the Congolese people aware and remind everyone of their duty on earth, and as it was so well said Azarias Ruberwa. “Live every day like a Sunday,” he insists, in addition.

13 years already

Here in Congo DRC, it is in 2004, while the country was in crisis, that this meeting of the national breakfast, headed by Azarias Ruberwa, had taken its first roots.

For 13 years, Congolese and foreign leaders have never tired of meeting, discussing and praying for a favourable situation in Congo DRC and to put God in everyone’s business.

This thirteenth meeting, held November 11, 2017 at Pullman GH, comes after a two-day leadership seminar.

Placed under the theme of this year’s “Model Leadership of Jesus Christ: The Holistic Salvation of Man”, it should be noted that many people are determined to make a difference in this country through the good faith, self-awareness, love of neighbor, but also, thanks to Jesus Christ who gives holistic salvation to man so that he reaches his full development, thus leading to the development of the Congolese community or nation, herself.

Genesis

We should go back to the 1950s, when there were several political and social difficulties in America, as well as wars that were fashionable at the time, to see an American President take the lead to create a collective that brought together a few members of the Senate and Congress to discuss all of these issues before going to the obvious that the only solution was to turn to Jesus Christ to pray, sharing a common meal around a table.

And this has been going on for more than 63 years, with the concept spread throughout the world in more than 150 cells that bring together several leaders where they associate Jesus Christ in their debates focused primarily on the problems of their countries, Africa but also of the world.

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The plenary of Friday, November 10, 2017 has been quite unusual in its progress. Back from a few days in the hemicycle, the Opposition, through the Honorable Toussaint Alonga, made use of an incidential motion to clear its substance an oral question with debate initiated by the Deputy Elvis Mutiri wa Bashara to José Makila Sumanda, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister in charge of Transport. This question concerned the import of 20-year-old used cars in the DRC and their harmful consequences for the environment. According to Deputy Toussaint Alonga, who presented the said motion, the matter criticised by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport is transversal. In so far as it concerns four Ministers who had signed the document at the time of the making of this decision under the Badibanga Government.

These are the Ministers of Finance, Economy, Trade and Transport. In principle, said Deputy Allsaint Alonga, it is the four Ministers who should answer this oral question with debate initiated by the Deputy Elvis Mutiri. ” The decree of 4 April 2017 modifying and completing that of 2012 is a question of transversal and multidisciplinary competence that refers to the general policy of the Government, because, he argued, he was countersigned by four Ministers from different sectors including Economics, Finance, Foreign Trade and Transport and Communication Channels, ‘he said. But he was surprised that the VPM and Minister of Transport was the only guest. Or, then, stressed Toussaint Alonga, it is the Prime Minister who normally should answer since it is a Prime Minister who had signed the decree, Samy Badibanga not to quote it.

Alonga saves Makila

It will be recalled that the Parliamentary Opposition slammed the door of the Chamber because of the incidential motion presented by the majority during the motion of no confidence against the VPM Ramazani Shadary and the Minister of State Alexis Thambwe Mwamba.

Did the same Opposition, which criticised the Speaker of the National Assembly for stifling the debate by accepting incidental motions, contradict each other? Asked a certain opinion. Ironically, reiterate his opponents, the same Opposition, better the same Deputy Toussaint Alonga who personally initiated a petition against Minaku for the aforementioned reasons, it is also he who has now come with the incidental motion to stifle the debate since VPM Makila is responsible for his department. The Opposition, it is said, is caught in its own trap. What about the passport issue, which is also cross-cutting when we know that the question involves the Ministers of Finance, Foreign Affairs and the Interior where the debate took place? MP She Okitundu had, at the time, answered Members’ questions on this issue. What will the Opposition say now when the Majority wavers the same motion to oppose any initiative coming from it? The question is asked.

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No more question of distraction with the proliferation of absurd discussions or idle circumlocutions. Let’s go to the elections! ”. Clear message, speech adapted to the political situation of the moment. Now, at the CDER, things are taken seriously, since the CENI published, on November 5, the new calendar setting the elections to December 23, 2018. Officers and activists, leagues around Jean-Lucien Bussa Tongba, are ready to wash the affront, in these polls which, after several postponements, were, this time, confirmed for December 2018. “We recommend that the Government quickly send the electoral law to the National Assembly and that the Enrollment process is accelerating. Most of the time is the elections scheduled for 2018, which interest us the most. The road to the street is not worth it, “said Jean-Lucien Bussa Tongba on Saturday, November 11, in Kasa-Vubu, on the occasion of the inauguration of a brand new seat of the Renewing Democrats Movement, his own political party. He said it so well, from the top of the platform erected for the occasion, to allow him to commune with the entire tide made up of activists, cadres and sympathizers of the party, who came from all over the city-Province of Kinshasa, to know a little more about the orientations mainly focused on the prospects in relation to the electoral deadlines. To be honest, the Renewing Democrats of R & D. Congo, led by Bussa, elected from Budjala on the blessed lands of former Ecuador and Minister of State in charge of Foreign Trade, are launched on the ground, for preparations to win several seats in Parliament, during the games elections in 2018.

Bussa aims, indeed, the top 5 of the first parties that will gain the most possible seats both at national level and at the provincial level.

Executives and activists learned from their leader this weekend. They are, in fact, embarked on this vision of preparing, right now, the victory instead of believing in a miracle fortuitous.

Bussa believes, hard as iron, that it must be seriously worked to deserve to be ranked pole position, when the time comes. The message thus launched is part of the implementation of the electoral calendar, as published on 5 November 2017 by the CENI.

At the CDER, Bussa also thinks that there is no longer any question of spending time talking or discussing. Enough is enough ! We just need people to prepare for the elections. That is all. The rest is, in his opinion, only trivial. Hence, the mobilization he launched this Saturday, November 11, 2017 until elections 2018.

What about the CDER?

The CDER is a political party officially recognized since December 17, 2013, by the ministerial decree n ° 100 bearing registration of a political party. The trend of the Rénovateurs Democrats, CDER, is a party of men and women concerned about the multiform crisis that the Democratic Republic of Congo has been going through for several years and highlighted by insecurity in the country, the poverty that 71% of the population, as well as the backwardness of the country, according to all economic and social indicators, to the other countries of the world. This, in contradiction with the immense economic potentialities available to the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We are together for a strong ambition: that of an emerging Congo and a dignified people. Yes, a strong and prosperous Congo is possible! A rapid and radical change is possible. It depends only on the determination of the elites and the mobilisation of all the forces of the nation. We defend democratic principles, the promotion of moral values, respect for the rule of law, the promotion of fundamental freedoms, respect for the principles of equality and equity; the respect of economic and social rights for a Congo whose vocation is to join the circle of emerging countries and a socially fulfilled people. We highlight, the role of the elites and the effective involvement of the entire population to achieve the desired qualitative change “is the premise of the CDER, a party dear to the worthy son of Ecuador, Jean-Lucien Bussa , its National President.

Alternative leadership

The current vision of the Renewing Democrats is based on the belief that the difference between states today rests on the quality of leadership.

Hence, the ambition would be to offer the Congolese a credible and visionary alternative leadership for quality governance that derives from effective institutions, held by an ambitious and responsible elite.

In doing so, the CDER advocates the fact that it is possible to break the contradiction: “DRC, a country with immense natural potential and populations among the poorest in the world”. The Renewing Democrats’ Stream advocates, in fact, the restoration of R & D. Congo in the geostrategic, economic and social position that corresponds to its true dimension, and the Congolese people in their lost dignity.

The purpose of the CDER’s struggle is to place the country in the orbit of the developed countries, and to restore the dignity of the Congolese.

It is in this perspective that it addresses topics of national interest in order to find structural and practical answers.

Aware of his political struggle, undoubtedly realistic, the National President of the Current of the Renewable Democrats, the Honourable Jean-Lucien Bussa did not hesitate, during the inaugural ceremony of the national headquarters, Saturday, November 11 last, to reaffirm the availability of its elite to face, without fear, or shame, the polls by the end of 2018, as planned in the calendar published on November 5 last. Thought precedes action, he argues, at the CDER.

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He has neither the habit nor the quality to summon musicians. And yet, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Cardinal of this state and Metropolitan Archbishop of Kinshasa, has indeed crossed the rubicund. He was, in fact, the initiator of a meeting organised on Friday, November 10, in the Cathedral Notre Dame du Congo, with Congolese musicians, many to listen to him. But what was it? Many questions remain on this subject. But, to see it up close, some political exegeses denounce, a prior, the beginning of a Plan B, behind this kind of new strategy of gain of souls.

Far from a simple Mass, as one could imagine, it was, rather, a working session, a call to the conscience and the patriotic awakening that would go in the direction of accompany the Bishops and the country towards a future change.

The opportunity has thus been given to the analysts, after all, to be lost in conjectures on the merits of such a session at this crucial moment when the whole country is negotiating a final turn towards pluralistic elections, according to the a calendar that was, fortunately, published on November 5 by the Central Electoral Office.

Some think that, like some insidious contacts, the Monsengwo-Musicians face-to-face is one of them. It hides a face that they call, simply, “black mass”, because of its motivations and bases difficult to decipher.

This makes the most extremist among these analysts say that a punt would always be in perspective in R & D. Congo. And that in such a case, the Congolese authorities should prepare, logically, to deal with it.

And yet, there is nothing to indicate that by resorting to this type of methodology to access the mysteries of power, peace would be guaranteed and the unity of the country preserved. Nothing, then nothing at all, offers the slightest prospect of an upturn, if we ever resorted to methods, once decried to try to recover the power we no longer had on the street, direct discussions, as announced by the Bishops, from December 8, 2016 to March 27, 2017, at the Interdiocesan Center.

The royal road, the only one left, after all these apocalyptic plans and the schemas of chaos, is to go to the elections.

Now, on that, the calendar has been published. Deadlines are fixed. In Parliament, the laws will be gradually passed, while the government and external partners will fight to gather the logistical, material, human and financial, to materialize this laborious and expensive electoral process, at the end of December 2018. And that if all is well, the discount-recovery, scheduled for January 12, 2019, will be without a shot.

On the other hand, leaving this electoral scheme with all the calls for peace and nourishing the ambitions to return to unconstitutional methods, to seize power, is to plunge the country in the footsteps of a march backwards.

Visibly, from the beginning, the meeting Monsengwo-Musicians does not display its true deep reasons. But, those who pass it to the prism of criticism, think it participates in the beginning of a game whose fears are transverse and longitudinal.

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While it is obviously digesting its downfall of the Presidency of the Provincial Assembly of Kinshasa on September 30, the Honourable Roger Nsingi, one learns sources close to this deliberative organ of the Capital-province, could be found, very soon, before the bar. Not for the facts alleged against him at the time of his eviction, namely: mismanagement, but rather for “use of forgery” and “forgery in writing”.

What exactly is it?

In correspondence giving notice of the taking of an act of renunciation of a parliamentary mandate signed on 18 July 2015 and transmitted to his addressee, the Honorable Mbengama Lonz’liso Francis, most recently on 3 October 2017, the VPM in charge of the Interior and the Minister of Relations with the Parliament, Nsingi Roger said he took note of the renunciation of the mandate of his Vice-President in 2015. At the request of Mr. Botswali Barthélémy, Codeli, from which the Vice-President of the Provincial Assembly of Kinshasa emerged.

Where arguments do not stand the ground, it is clear that in 2015, Nsingi Roger’s critics note, it is clear that at this time of the writing of this letter, the Ministry of the Interior, in its had no decentralization dimension as stated in the letter of the deprived President of the Kinshasa Provincial Assembly (APK). Moreover, the Ministry of Relations with Parliament was not, at the same time, headed by a Minister of State, Lisanga Bonganga, at the present time. And so the departments to which Nsingi Roger had reserved copies did not exist in 2015. It is forgeries in writing and use of forgeries, conclude the opponents of the elected Lingwala who are already constituted in civil part in what ” it is already appropriate to call a “suit against Roger Nsingi for forgery in writing and use of forgeries”.

Another question that is challenging is that why Roger Nsingi waited two years and a few months to mail his correspondence allegedly drafted on October 3, 2017, so after his downfall of the Provincial Assembly on September 30th?

For the perpetrators of the defeat of the President of the Kinshasa parliament, hear the 39 elected members who voted for his departure from their institution, Nsingi Roger wants the public to believe that his Vice President, Mbengama Lonz’liso Francis, was no longer member of the Provincial Assembly of Kinshasa at the time of the vote of his forfeiture. And yet, argue-one, irrefutable evidence testifies against Nsingi Roger. Notably, several orders of mission signed by him, while he had the imperium. Among others, 001 / APK / PRES / 2016, where 25 people, MPs and APK staff, were authorized to travel to the United States of America, with Francis Mbengama as Head of Delegation Vice-President of the APK. It was to attend the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

There is also the collective mission order number 667 / APK / PRES / 2017 for 14 Provincial MPs and 7 members of the APK for a similar mission in New York. Here, the same Francis Mbengama led the delegation of the APK.

Finally, exit authorizations No. 014 / APK / PRES / 2017 and 039 / PRES / APK2016 respectively signed by Nsingi Roger on 20 June 2016 and 9 November 2016 for 60 days and 6 days, in favor of Vice-President Mbengama Francis and his wife and their companions, all went to South Africa.

This makes the opponents of the fallen President say that he must be prosecuted for the use of false and false in writing.

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Amy Ambatobe, Minister of the Environment and Rural Development was once again this Thursday 12 October 2017 in the hemicycle of the People’s Palace. This member of the Tshibala Government was asked to respond to the various concerns raised during his presentation on Tuesday, October 10, of the bill authorizing the ratification of the Paris agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change. At the end of this plenary, he had asked for 48 hours to gather the elements of adequate answers. After giving more refined insights to the concerns of the Honourable Deputies, the plenary adopted its text. Amy Ambatobe remains optimistic about the smooth progress of this bill, which normally has to pass to the upper house in order to be sent to the presidency for its promulgation.

The Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development explained to journalists how important it is for the DRC to ratify the Paris agreement. This, he said, would offer perceived benefits under several political, diplomatic, and forestry issues in relation to the agreement. Moreover, the Paris Agreement was adopted by 195 States and was signed in New York on 22 April by the President of the Republic. Accession to this Agreement is perceived as a symbol of the coherence and continuity of our political commitment as expressed by the Guarantor of the Nation. Apart from this, the DRC, by adhering to this historic agreement, has affirmed its Regional and International Leadership, which has placed it among the leaders of countries with ambitions in the fight against climate change. In concrete terms, under the terms of the agreement and the accompanying decisions, the Green Climate Fund, which currently has an initial capital of US $ 10.2 billion, will be fed by developed countries to channel financing climatic conditions equivalent to 100 billion US dollars from 2020, the year foreseen for the entry into force of the agreement. This financial windfall undoubtedly presents itself as an opportunity to be seized for the DRC, said the Minister of the Environment to the Deputies. According to Amy Ambatobe, this agreement also provides for a new precise financial commitment from 2025 and will be reviewed every five years. This, before rebounding, also, on the forestry issues. “The DRC, which holds more than 145 million hectares of forests; As the world’s second lung after the Amazon, to maintain its leadership position in climate regulation, it should feel challenged. The same is true of securing the right of communities to access forest resources. This, in accordance with Article 13 of the said Agreement on Transparency and State Sovereignty, ” he said. Amy Ambatobe pointed out that the same applies to securing the communities’ right of access to forest resources guaranteed by the provision mentioned above in the Paris text, which reinforces and guarantees the sustainable and efficient management of the forest.

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The World Bank, on Wednesday, October 11, at its headquarters in Gombe, launched a semi-annual report called “Africa’s Pulse”, a report analysing the state of African economies. This report finds a loss of efficiency in investment, particularly in countries with less resilient economies. With regard to the education sector, the report finds serious difficulties. One in three children does not complete their schooling and less than 10% have access to higher education.

It was Albert Zeufack, Chief Economist of the World Bank for Africa, who presented the Africa’s Pulse report. In his presentation, he explained that in most African countries the economic recovery is there, but much remains to be done to sustainably build the foundation for this growth. And to say that in several key areas, progress is timid. The report also notes a loss of investment efficiency, particularly in countries with less resilient economies. This is particularly true in skills development, where countries need to understand why they continue to have the lowest skilled labor force in the world, while they are investing heavily in the education sector. Virtually one in three children does not complete their education and less than 10% have access to higher education. “Despite the volume of public education spending, millions of African children still do not acquire the basic skills needed to participate actively in the labor market,” said the World Bank’s chief economist.

Investing in Youth

He deplored the fact that many young Africans leave school without having acquired the necessary notions for a productive life. And in many cases, less than half of adults can read and write. “Youth is an asset if it seizes the opportunities that come before it,” he said. To fill these gaps, he urged sub-Saharan African countries to help young people with literacy and numeracy skills. “There can be no sustainable growth if people do not master the fundamentals of reading, writing and calculating as much skills that enable everyone to be an accomplished citizen and realise their dreams,” argues -he.

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Of course, the stalemate that is increasingly eroding DRC Congo is the result of controversies arising, inter alia, from the interpretation of the Constitution between the policies and, at the same time, the logical consequence of the blocking of the electoral process, which, once relaxed, would religiously lead the country first democratic alternation.

Moreover, it is not without ignorance, urbi et orbi, that the first grabuges stemmed mainly from the failure to hold the elections in 2016. This marked the end of the second and last term of office President of the Republic. In spite of the concoction of several negotiations which first gave birth to the Agreement of the City of the African Union and, finally, that of the New Year’s Eve, considered a true springboard for the relaxation of the crisis which shook the Congo-Kinshasa, the line of arrival of the pilgrimage leading to the electoral games seems, however, far away.

While several believed that by December 31, 2017, the straight line of the modus vivendi signed at the Interdiocesan Center, the Independent National Electoral Commission, CENI, after having notified, on the other side of the earth, its the impossibility of organizing these elections during this year, has, this time, accentuated the uncertainty over these elections.

Its president, Corneille Nangaa, announced last Wednesday that this institution of support for democracy would need 504 incompressible days, counting from the end of the enrollment, to bring the Congolese to the polls. This, according to calculations made illico presto, returns these electoral challenges to after April 2019. And this, if only the operations of registration of the voters in the Great Kasai, the last area, ends by December or beginning January 2018. There, another question. For only God knows, at this moment, the outcome of this process. Will the Ceni experience any new or unknown contingencies? Already, in terms of reactions, the Rassemblement / Limete, the typical adversary of the current regime, declared his indignation in connection with this communication by Corneille Nangaa. This platform which does not even guarantee a passing of a few minutes of the year 2017 without the votes, has, consequently, amplified its attachment to its recently published road map, after its second conclave. That is to say, a transition without the current Head of State and even without the present President of the Electoral Center, Mr. Nangaa.

In doing so, DRC Congo is heading straight for a new crisis after 31 December 2017. The latter, according to the Laboratory of Political Affairs, will be linked to the non-organisation of elections in 2017, in accordance with the New Year’s Eve compromise and, also, to a certain obsolescence of the institutions covered by the said Agreement.

Subsequently, the new transition, not foreseen by the same act initialed under the auspices of the Bishops of the Cenco, should be concocted in order to free itself from the impasse.

Hence, the uncertainty about the holding of elections and the democratic, free and peaceful alternation will have, such as the symptoms of a moribund, reached its climax. No one, from east to west, can imagine the probable date of the elections.

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It is around 221 files that these are unfolded operations pays the victims, Thursday, October 12, 2017, to the National Insurance Company. And this in the branches of automobile insurance, life and fire. 29 agencies have made possible the operations which have been the subject of compensation. These operations always take place in a climate of irremediable economic gloom. This is why a beneficiary has praised the act of bravery, patriotism and generosity that Sonas is constantly demonstrating to restore victims to their rights.

An accident is a fortuitous and imprescriptible act. To return to the classification of insurance, it should be recalled that automobile insurance is the insurance that covers insurable risks in the event of accidents committed or suffered by a vehicle or other self-propelled machinery. It is calculated according to the number of horsepower (CV) of the vehicle. As for life insurance, it responds to the inadequacy of a person who has ceased to be active in his or her life, whether by illness, death or retirement. It is an annuity paid to the individual or his family in relation to his contributions during his lifetime or when he still had his job or the strength to work. Finally, fire insurance is the insurance that relates to the insurable risks of a commercial building, a residential building, a business, a shop, or any other movable or real property exposed to the risk of fire. There are many cases of fires in Kinshasa. They are often dependent on either negligence with candles left on, or the poor quality of electricity supply, the tension of which can surge suddenly and unexpectedly. The same applies to the case of the sale of fuel on the safe side, that is to say, in residential houses. The pay of the victims of this Thursday 12 October 2017, informs that the Directorate General has compensated 86 victims. The agencies of Bandalungwa, Funa and Kasa-Vubu with 5 files compensated, each. On the other hand, the agencies of Barumbu, Commerce and Huileries with 7 files released by each of them. This was not the case at the Beach-Ngobila, Kinsuka, Kintambo and Ndolo agencies, where each of them compensated 3 cases. In addition, the agencies of Mbenseke, Fikin, Kalamu and N’djili each treated and released only one file. 9 cases were liquidated at DGI / Gombe. They were up to 11 files paid, to the agency of Gombe. 2 files released in each of Kimbanseke, Masina, Ngaliema, Ngiri-Ngiri and Socimat agencies. 4 files released in each of Kingabwa, Libération and N’sele Maluku agencies. The Limete agency with 13 compensated. Sainte-Thérèse with 6 victims compensated. And finally, the agency of June 30 with 8 files.

How to be compensated

The practical procedures to be followed and recognized by Sonas SA when a disaster occurs are that when you have been hit by a vehicle or it is your vehicle that has hit an individual or another vehicle, the first step is to call on an OPJ assigned to the road traffic police to verify the accident and to ensure that the PV is established in accordance with the facts as they occurred. The second step is that in the event of a collision with another vehicle, it is necessary to check on the place of the accident, if your opponent is insured.

In case you have caused bodily injury to a person, it is recommended that you take charge of first aid to save human life and relieve the victims. The costs incurred will be reimbursed by Sonas.

The third step is to report the accident within eight (8) days of the accident to the agency / SONAS where you have taken out your insurance policy or to the nearest agency . It is imperative that you bring your proof of insurance. Caution, a false declaration entails the forfeiture of the guarantee and the criminal prosecution. The fourth step is to show your opponent proof of insurance. As a result, Sonas must be required to have a claim number assigned to your file and, finally, an acknowledgement of receipt specifying all the documents required for the management of your file. Finally, the fifth step is only in case you are responsible for the accident, you must now direct the victim (s) to the agency / Sonas manager of your contract for his / her care and possibly its compensation. If your opponent is responsible for the accident and you are insured only in civil liability, you must check if your opponent is insured, before inviting him to follow the various steps provided in this procedure. When your opponent, who is responsible for the accident, is not insured, you can sue him, in accordance with the Civil Code to obtain compensation for the harm suffered.

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