The stalemate has put a brake on Tshisekedi’s declared ambitions of reforming a country marked by corruption and rights abuses.
Indicators are that the government does not intend sticking to constitutional deadlines, and is instead pursuing a strategy of delaying elections.
Kabila has spent the first four-and-a-half months of his second mandate keeping the country in suspense about the composition of his new government.
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/ 19 September 2007
Thousands of children are being forced into armed service in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since fighting erupted between rebels and the Congolese army in North Kivu province in late August, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Wednesday.