Kevin Sturr Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kevin-sturr/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kevin Sturr Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kevin-sturr/ 32 32 DRC releases arrested US diplomat https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/drc-releases-arrested-us-diplomat/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/drc-releases-arrested-us-diplomat/ Security forces in the DRC have returned to the US embassy in Kinshasa an American diplomat they’d arrested a pro-democracy rally. They’re still holding more than 40 locals and other African activists arrested with the envoy. The US diplomat snagged by DRC authorities is Kevin Sturr who’s driving Washington’s democracy and good governance program in […]

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]]> Security forces in the DRC have returned to the US embassy in Kinshasa an American diplomat they’d arrested a pro-democracy rally.

They’re still holding more than 40 locals and other African activists arrested with the envoy.

The US diplomat snagged by DRC authorities is Kevin Sturr who’s driving Washington’s democracy and good governance program in Congo.

The embassy says the security swoop involved an event it partly sponsors involving youth and civil society as part of its broader commitment to encourage a range of voices to be heard.

Official DRC spokesman Lambert Mende says Congo intelligence services believed the event billed as an exchange between African civil society organisations, was instead a project organised by instructors in insurrection.

President Joseph Kabila is facing mounting criticism of his reported intent to trywinning a third mandate at elections due next year.

 

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