{"id":50053,"date":"2024-02-21T08:43:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-congo-s-prime-minister-steps-down\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:46:07","slug":"dr-congo-s-prime-minister-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-congo-s-prime-minister-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo&#8217;s Prime Minister steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This development came to light on the evening of Tuesday, February 20, 2024, when Lukonde submitted a letter to the country&#8217;s President, F\u00e9lix Antoine Tshisekedi, explaining his decision to leave office.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported he resigned to allow President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi, who was recently re-elected for a second term, to form a new  cabinet. <\/p>\n<p>Lukonde, who assumed the role of Prime Minister in 2021, took over from Sylvestre Ilunga Ilukamba.<\/p>\n<p>Ilukamba&#8217;s tenure as Prime Minister ended following a loss of confidence from the Parliament, leading to his resignation. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-63784\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg\" alt=\"Sama Lukonde, the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has officially tendered his resignation. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Sama Lukonde, the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has officially tendered his resignation.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000063783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000063783,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ggzr2maxuaegprx-c51df.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000063783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50053"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50053"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}