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DRC: Kabila nominates first of four vice presidents
KINSHASA, 22 April 2003 (IRIN) - President Joseph Kabila has nominated Aboulaye Yerodia Ndombasi as one of the four vice presidents of the transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Foreign Minister She Okitundu made the announcement in Kinshasa on Wednesday. "The choice is consensual," Okitundu said. "He is a nationalist; that is a criteria."
However, the man responsible for foreign relations within the rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-Goma (RCD-Goma), Joseph Mudumbi, told IRIN that Ndombasi's nomination was "an obstacle" to the transitional government because he was facing criminal charges in a Belgian court for inciting hatred against Rwandan Tutsis.
When war broke out in 1998, Ndombasi called on the public "to crush" Rwandan Tutsis whom he described as "vermin". The Rwandans entered the Congo in support of the RCD rebels.
Ndombasi, a former foreign minister, was a colleague of Laurent-Desire Kabila; the Congolese President assassinated on 16 January 2001.
Themes: (IRIN) Governance
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