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Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila has dissolved his cabinet. Announcing the move at the weekend, Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi, permanent secretary to the DRC head of state, said, however, that the government will continue to run the country’s day-to-day affairs pending the formation of a new cabinet.
A decree on the dissolution of the cabinet, read out on state TV by Yerodia, linked the move to “the constraints imposed by the war of aggression confronting the country since 2 August 1998” and the “need to reaffirm the national cohesion of the entire people around the government”.
The move also responds to “the need to pursue and implement the timetable of the continuing democratic process and national reconstruction since it is understood that there is the need to adapt the government of the republic to the state of war with a view to achieving peace...,” according to the decree.
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