A Congolese cardinal is resisting calls to run for president
Last month a coalition of Catholic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urged Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo of Kinshasa to run for president in December’s elections. The group, known as “Dynamique Chrétienne pour l’Unité et la Démocratie”, said the country had been “on a slippery slope” ever since its 1960 independence from France and argued that the cardinal offered a credible alternative to an opposition “tearing itself apart".
