Kabila prete serment


Maintenant c'est vraiment officiel. Joseph Kabila a prete serment le 6 decembre dernier. Il devient ainsi le 1er President de la Republique du Congo democratiquement elu. Ce jeune president qui n'a que 35 ans (la valeur n'attend pas le nombre d'annees comme qui dirait!) devra diriger ce vaste pays aux richesses enormes (la moitie des reserves de cobalt mondiales, 30% des diamants, 70% du coltan (un composant des telephones mobiles).

Il est appele a relever des defis importants parmi lesquels on peut deja noter:
  • Pacifier le pays encore en proie a des regains de violence et des affrontements entre diverses factions armees, rebelles, troupes etrangeres et armee reguliere. La guerre, rappelons-le a fait 4 millions de morts. Certains creditent Kabila d'avoir ramener la paix au Congo, un des gages de sa reussite aux affaires sera sa capacite a maintenir cette paix.
  • Reconstruire et developper le pays et creer des infrastructures que la guerre a quasiment reduites au neant. Le developpement passera a n'en point douter par une meilleure repartition de la manne miniere, et un combat apre contre la pauvrete et la corruption.
  • Apprendre le Lingala! Il est dommage que ce president swahilophone de naissance ne connaisse pas cette langue, qui est la langue principale dans l'Ouest du pays et dans la capitale Kinshasa.


La photo des rejouissances auxquelles Jean-Pierre Bemba n'a pas assiste, sont disponibles sur le site de la BBC. Un commentaire tres drole de Congogirl sur son blog: "One question about the article: BBC says, "Many people were shading themselves under umbrellas in the national colours of blue, red and yellow." Have any of you ever seen umbrellas in Africa in large numbers that were NOT blue, red, and yellow? They forgot green."

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La priorite des congolais aujourd'hui c'est la paix dans le pays. La tache qui attend Joseph Kabila est immense, esperons qu'il sera a la hauteur...
mardi, décembre 12, 2006 10:06:00 PM
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