Congo's Kabila pledges to implement reforms after national dialogue


  • World
  • Sunday, 06 Oct 2013

Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 25, 2013. REUTERS/Stan Honda/Pool

DAKAR (Reuters) - Congo's President Joseph Kabila pledged on Saturday to turn the recommendations from three weeks of national dialogue into policies to tackle the central African nation's daunting social, institutional and economic problems.

The talks in the capital Kinshasa were boycotted by some members of opposition political parties, who said they were denied the opportunity to discuss the validity of Kabila's disputed 2011 presidential election triumph.

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