Read: M23 rebels seize strategic East DRC townTshisekedi, who is seeking another five-year term, also headed east, visiting Bunia in neighboring Ituri province on Tuesday accompanied by his wife, Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi. Read: Insecurity fears in Eastern DRC ahead of electionsOpposition candidate and Nobel Peace Prize-winning gynecologist Denis Mukwege launched his campaign for president on Sunday in his hometown of Bukavu in South Kivu Province. Mukwege, who founded the Panzi hospital and foundation in eastern DRC after witnessing the horrific injuries and diseases suffered by rape victims, went on to Butembo and Beni. Read: For ‘unsafe’ East DRC, voting remains a distant dreamRoughly the size of continental western Europe, DRC the is awash with minerals and precious stones, but war, corruption and chronic mismanagement have impacted the nation’s economic growth. While most of the country has returned to relative stability after two major wars in the 1990s and 2000s, militias and rebel groups roam much of Eastern DRC, which borders Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

Source: Daily Nation December 02, 2023 08:43 UTC