On Monday 22 January, Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders again expressed concern about the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and called on the EU to put pressure on the new Kabila government for the elections to take place on 23 December 2018.
Reynders raised this point at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, but no further discussion ensued.
"On 31 December and in recent days there have been demonstrations with very violent crackdowns. I believe the...