Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Taking a Toll on Africa

Congolese Presidential Candidate Urges Use of Sanctions to Bring About Democratic Change in DRC 

Moise Katumbi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s leading opposition candidate for president, has urged the international community to use sanctions to press Congolese President Joseph Kabila to give up power. A political crisis in a country where war claimed around five million lives between 1994 and 2003 could create instability that spreads to the DRC’s neighbors, he warned.