Via Actualite.cd: Insecurity: Beni paralyzed following Lucha's call for a dead city. This will likely have an effect on the Ebola response. The Google translation:
Socio-economic activities are again paralyzed this morning in Beni, North Kivu province. The population responded to the slogan of the Citizen Movement Struggle for Change (LUCHA), which called for a day without work, to mourn civilians killed in a recent Batanuka attack south-east of the city.
Activities have been slowing down since the morning of Wednesday, June 5, 2019. The stalls at Kilokwa Central Market are almost empty. On Nyamwisi Boulevard, banks, shops and other small businesses have not opened. Similar situation to the Matonge shopping center, in the municipality of Mulekera, where most commercial houses are also closed. Schools have also fired the students who showed up this morning for classes. At the Matonge roundabout, tires burn and barricades are visible in several neighborhoods.
"We are satisfied with the fact that our appeal is being followed by the people and tomorrow we will take a stand to try to hammer on what we launched yesterday, civil disobedience, that is to say, the population living in the area of Beni and Butembo will refrain from any payment of taxes to the Congolese State. We will refrain from giving our share for the construction of the Congolese State because we do not benefit," says to ACTUALITE.CD Esai Luko, militant of Lucha.
On the sidelines of this dead-city day, dozens of activists from the Veranda Mutsanga movement, accompanied by some 20 schoolchildren, demonstrate in the streets and on the Nyamwisi Boulevard to raise awareness of the importance of their demands.
