Kinshasa press review from Tuesday October 15, 2024.
The newspapers published this Tuesday in Kinshasa reserve pride of place for information on the return match between Tanzania and the DRC, counting for the 4th day of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
Infos 27 opens the ball and headlines: “Tanzania-DRC: The Leopards in search of qualification for CAN 2025”. This daily reveals that the coach of the Leopards of the DRC, Sébastien Desabre, affirmed, on Monday, October 14, during the pre-match press conference that his team will enter the field to be qualified. According to him, indicates this portal, the Leopards are ready for the clash against the Taifa Stars, this Tuesday, October 15 at the Benjamin Mpaka Stadium in Dar Es Salam. In the columns of this portal, the French technician declared: “Tomorrow, the players will be focused and motivated to obtain a result. We have been working for two years. We are professional, whatever the match to be played. We are (yet) not qualified (for CAN-Morocco 2025). So, we will play tomorrow to qualify after the match. That’s our first objective.”
On the same page, the Reference Plus quotes Sébastien Desabre who sees more results while the Leopards of the DRC win their matches less convincingly. This daily notes that in the Leopards group, the players promise to go all out in order to qualify two days before the end of the qualifying phase. According to Reference Plus, the Leopards coach recognizes, however, that this Tanzanian team has not conceded many goals since the start of this competition.
The True Theme hopes that this Tuesday in Dar-es-Salam, the Leopards will show another face to seek, if only one point allowing them to manage their qualification. This weekly estimates that this match will be very complicated in front of a hostile public and this requires the Congolese technical staff to do mental work to allow this selection to hold on.
On another chapter, the tropical storm reports that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in a statement published Monday October 14 from The Hague, announced the reactivation of investigations in the DRC into crimes committed since 2022 in the province of North Kivu. According to this Magistrate, this tabloid reports, his approach follows various requests made by the Congolese authorities in order to initiate investigations at the scene of the crime.
The opportunity playing the thief, recalls the Reference Plusthe ICC Prosecutor welcomed the decision of the Congolese authorities to set up a steering committee to work on the establishment of a special criminal court for the DRC which intensified its international judicial offensive against Rwanda by denouncing the slowness of the ICC.
In the meantime, indicates the Phare believes that in light of the final communiqué having sanctioned the exchanges between Congolese and Rwandan delegations, in Luanda that the road leading to the effective application of the ceasefire is still long. Indeed, adds this daily, while Kinshasa has made a commitment to neutralize the FDLR in order to remove from the men in power in Kigali the pretext of the threat of destabilization of their country by the fighters of this armed group, these have not formally agreed to withdraw their troops from the territories they occupy in North Kivu.
On the sidelines of the month of October dedicated to Congolese coffee, the National Office of Agricultural Products of Congo, direction of Bukavu celebrated this moment on the Island of Idjwi as indicated in the columns of the newspaper the Potential. On this occasion, underlines Le Potentiel, the Chief Sector Director of the National Office of Agricultural Products of Congo/Bukavu, Francois Kambale called on the Congolese to consume their coffee so that the sector is protected from fluctuations in the stock market. New York, United States of America.
