DR Congo: Senate examines 2027-2030 military programming bill
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Actualité.cd
DR Congo's Senate has begun examining the 2027-2030 military programming bill, already adopted by the National Assembly. The text was referred to the Defence, Security and Border Commission, which has five days to present its report before adoption in plenary, according to the Senate's communication unit.
Senators of the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Friday 6 November the examination of the 2027-2030 military programming bill, during a plenary chaired by Senate President Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge. Under article 128, paragraph 2, of the upper house's rules of procedure, he referred the text to the Defence, Security and Border Commission for in-depth examination, the Senate's communication unit reports.
The commission has five days to present its report to the Senate plenary, which will then proceed to adopt the text. The bill comes from the National Assembly, which had examined and adopted it at first reading during the last extraordinary session of the two chambers of Parliament.
The text had been presented to national deputies on Tuesday 14 July 2026 by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence and Veterans Affairs, Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita. The government presents it as a multi-year financial and strategic instrument intended to be integrated into the state budget, in order to plan the equipment, modernisation and build-up of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC), to end budgetary improvisation and to give a legal framework to the war effort.
The Ministry of Defence makes it a lever for modernising and professionalising the FARDC against internal and external threats. The previous military programming law, which covered the period 2022-2025, expired last year; the reform aims to adapt the legal framework to the country's new security realities.
