Overview

• Augustin Matata Ponyo, former DR Congo Prime Minister, received a ten-year forced labour sentence for embezzling $245 million of public funds.
• The funds were linked to the Bukanga-Lonzo Agro-Industrial Park, a project aimed at addressing food shortages but plagued by financial mismanagement.
• French magistrates suspended the case against Agathe Habyarimana, former Rwandan First Lady, citing insufficient evidence of complicity in the 1994 genocide, though an appeal is pending.
• The University of Zimbabwe has begun replacing striking lecturers with part-time staff earning significantly reduced wages of $5.50 per hour.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for an investigation into the death of Sudanese photojournalist Sheikho, killed in a suspected RSF drone strike on May 18.