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Two US diplomats were expelled from Kinshasa on Friday after the government accused them of “an inimical attitude towards the DRC that is incompatible with their status as diplomats”, DRC state television quoted the country’s Foreign Minister Yerodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi as saying. The two - press and cultural adviser, Denis Burgess and political adviser Roger Moran - were given 48 hours to leave the country. Two other US diplomats in Kinshasa are also being “closely watched” by the Congolese authorities who are still “investigating them”.
The expulsion followed a recent “revelation” by the Nairobi-based regional head of the All-African Conference of Churches, Theodore Mulunda, who is also the moderator of the Congolese national consultations, that the Americans “are preparing a military operation to oust President Kabila”, the television said.
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