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Since their deportation, the 47 have been held in secret at a high-security facility at police headquarters in Yaounde.

Katumbi filed a passport application at the Congolese embassy in Brussels.

Lucha is a pro-democracy civil rights movement in DR Congo whose name means “Struggle for Change”

Last year, authorities outlawed the main opposition party, the Citizens for Innovation

Authorities released photos of Bongo meeting the heads of the Constitutional Court and National Assembly and his chief of staff.

Washington says it wants to send a clear signal of the need for accountability in the DRC

“We reaffirm our faithfulness and our loyalty to His Excellency Joseph Kabila Kabange, honorary president of the Republic.”

Doumbia, the most senior government representative in the commune, was abducted in May 8 last year.

According to provisional results, Kabila’s supporters won 337 out of the parliament’s 485. Tshisekedi’s own party only garnered 32 seats.

The action comes after gunmen abducted two of MSF’s local staff earlier this month.