{"id":21118,"date":"2021-01-27T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21118"},"modified":"2021-01-27T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:14:36","slug":"dr-congos-prime-minister-loses-historic-no-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/dr-congos-prime-minister-loses-historic-no-confidence-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo&#8217;s Prime Minister Loses Historic No-Confidence Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MPs in the Democratic Republic of Congo have voted to remove Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba from power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Ilukamba, who was not present during the no-confidence vote in parliament, has been given 24 hours to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawmakers accuse Mr Ilukamba, an ally of former President Joseph Kabila, and his ministers of poor performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collapse of the government paves the way for President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi to appoint loyalists as ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Mr Tshisekedi ended a coalition formed with his predecessor, whose allies dominated key ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, Mr Tshisekedi has been persuading MPs to defect from Mr Kabila&#8217;s alliance, which previously held the majority in parliament, stalling the president&#8217;s reform programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be the first time in DR Congo&#8217;s 60-year history that a government has been forced to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs in the Democratic Republic of Congo have voted to remove Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba from power. Mr Ilukamba, who was not present during the no-confidence vote in parliament, has been given 24 hours to resign. The lawmakers accuse Mr Ilukamba, an ally of former President Joseph Kabila, and his ministers of poor performance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[483,5819],"class_list":["post-21118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-drc","tag-sylvestre-ilunga-ilukamba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21120,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions\/21120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}