AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The State of siege to stop violence risks being a failure"
AFRICA/DR CONGO - "The State of siege to stop violence risks being a failure" CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 2021-05-29 Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - " Can the militarization of civil administrations and intensification of armed pressure be enough to end the spiral of violence that has plagued the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for more than 20 years? Difficult to say ... "says a communication from the Peace Network for Congo on the state of siege in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, in the east of the country, which came into force on May 6 (see Fides, 7/...
Source: fides.org