Assembly members passed a motion of no-confidence against Cibalonza, the
South Kivu governor on 14 November, saying he had managed the province's
affairs badly and had failed to tackle rampant insecurity. Under the
constitution, a governor subjected to a no-confidence motion is supposed to
hand his resignation to the national president within 24 hours and dissolve
his provincial government. The governor has flown to Kinshasa for
consultation, but there is a developing crisis involving the civil society,
students, religious leaders and politicians of course..
A group of dissidents from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebel group is
preparing to surrender to United Nations peacekeepers in the DR Congo,
western diplomats in Kinshasa told Reuters on Monday. A MONUC spokesman
contacted by Reuters declined to comment. The LRA agreed to a truce during
peace talks held in southern Sudan in August 2006. But the movement's top
leaders have stayed hidden in Congo(Garamba park), fearing arrest.
Health officials declared the end of an outbreak of deadly Ebola
haemorrhagic fever, believed to have killed up to 187 people over 8 months.
Congo's Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that a
42-day period following the death of the last Ebola victim had ended on
November 13. Two towns (Mweka and Luebo) were affected by the outbreak in Kasai Occidental some months ago. .
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