“What the Congo desperately needs is a new generation of leaders. This notion that you have to do dirty deeds to get into politics and that politics is in fact rotten in itself…is a deeply unfortunate thing.”
Listen to CIC Senior Fellow Jason Stearns on BBC Newsday on the recent appointment of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former militia leader once convicted of war crimes as his new defence minister. Mr Bemba was cleared on appeal by the International Criminal Court in 2018.