The Church’s Role in the Congolese Political Crisis
https://oriens.or.jp/jmj/jmj_recent.html Christian Mukadi, SJ The Church ’ s Role in the Congolese Political Crisis Christian Mukadi, SJ The socio-political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo affects more than seventy million people in the heart of Africa. While the government in Kinshasa would like to keep power at any cost, the majority of Congolese are eager to get rid of this ineffective and oppressive regime. The standoff has created deep distrust between the population and the government under President Kabila, and the socio-economic fabric unravels day by day. The end of the Cold War and the advent of perestroika witnessed the debilitation of African dictatorships. Towards the 1990s, Africans experienced a wave of national dialogues known as Sovereign National Conferences (SNC). These forums favored the move from one-party to multi-party government in several countries. In DR Congo, several political forums continued following the cou