59 public figures challenge AFC-M23 university appointments
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mediacongo
Fifty-nine public figures, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, have sent an open letter to the authorities of the DRC and AFC-M23. They challenge the unilateral appointment of university officials in Goma and Bukavu, which they consider contrary to Congolese higher education law.
Fifty-nine public figures, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, are challenging university appointments made by the AFC-M23 in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu. They sent an open letter to the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, AFC-M23 officials and higher education stakeholders, Mediacongo reports.
The signatories include university professors, doctors, journalists, writers, magistrates and legal experts. They invoke Framework Law No. 14/004 of 11 February 2014 on national education. The law provides for the election by their peers of those responsible for higher and university education bodies, notably rectors and directors-general.
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