President Tshisekedi, in recognition of the honour bestowed on him by AFRIMA as well as his work, also awarded the 65-year-old Soukous singer as the country’s ambassador of culture and presented him with a diplomatic passport.
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His death was announced on Tuesday by the Army, which said a Transitional Military Council, chaired by Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, the late president’s son, has been formed to run the country for the next 18 months and organise elections.
The African Development Bank has called for strong economic ties between Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo to unlock potential in both countries to boost Africa’s development.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation was inaugurated in 2010 to unlock the obstacles that Africa’s entrepreneurs face as they grow their start-ups into small to medium enterprises and their SMEs into national growth companies, and their national growth companies into African multinationals
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s champion of entrepreneurship, has announced the line-up of speakers and activities for the 5th Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum, the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the newly elected President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo on his victory and inauguration.
The inauguration in Kinshasa was full of pomp and ceremony and ushered in the end of more than two decades of rule by the Kabila family.
The arrests occurred in the eastern city of Lubumbashi on Sunday when police broke up a meeting by the Union for Democracy and Social Progress party on the eve of a return to the city of opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi, after a long absence, party members told Reuters.