U.S IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON FORMER CONGO PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA. (PHOTO).

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 U.S imposes sanctions on former Congo President Joseph Kabila The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila for his support of ‌Rwanda-backed M23 rebels and for fueling political instability in Congo's troubled east. The U.S. Treasury Department said M23 and its political-military arm, the Congo River Alliance (AFC), had been stoking violent conflict in eastern DRC, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians and a mass displacement crisis. Treasury said Kabila had provided financial support to the ​AFC in order to influence the political situation in eastern DRC, while encouraging DRC troops to defect and join AFC forces. ​It said Kabila was working to regain influence over the government by backing a candidate opposed to the current ⁠leader. DRC Deputy Prime Minister Jacquemain Shabani welcomed what he called a long-delayed U.S. move against Kabila. "He is the instigator, the initiator, the architect ​of...

AFRICAN NATIONS,DON'T MAKE ECONOMIC EXCUSES-OBAMA.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Summit of the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, July 28, 2014.     REUTERS/Larry Downing            U.S president Barack Obama on monday gave a preview of a summit he will hold with African leaders next week,saying African nations should look inward for solutions to economic woes and not make excuses based on a history of dependence and colonization.Speaking to 500 young African finishing a six week Washington leadership fellowship.Obama said it was important for developed countries to consider providing some targeted debt relief,it was time to end the notion that all of African nations problems resulted from onerous debt imposed by the west.''At some point,we have to stop looking some where else for solutions,and you have to start looking for solutions internally.As powerful as history is,and you need to know that history,at some point,you have to look to the future and say ok,we didn't get a good deal the,but let's make sure that we're not making excuses for not going forward''.

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