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STORY: DRC / KINSHASA PROTEST
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: MONUSCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 21 JANUARY 2018 KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
1. Tracking shot, protestors at the MONUSCO base
2. Various shots, Congolese security forces arrive and being attacked by protestors
3. Wide shot, protestors singing national anthem
4. Med shot, UN Police woman speaking on megaphone
5. Wide shot, police firing teargas on protestors
6. Med shot, police pickup track passing by
7. Wide shot, burning tires
8. Wide shot, people running
Six people were killed and scores were injured Sunday in protests throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Protestors are asking for the resignation of the country’s president Joseph Kabila whose mandate expired in 2016.
The negotiations between the DRC government and opposition held in December 2016 culminated in a political agreement which envisioned a political transition ending with presidential election to be held by the end of 2017.
Kabila’s government says it is planning to hold the elections by the end of this year.
Following the reports of casualties in Kinshasa on Sunday, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the Congolese security forces “to exercise restraint and to uphold the Congolese people’s right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.”
Guterres also said the political agreement from December 2016 “remains the only viable path to the holding of elections, the peaceful transfer of power and the consolidation of stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
The Secretary-General delivered his remarks through his spokesperson Monday (22 Jan) in New York.
