Congo’s president has not kept his word
From free schools to peace in the east, Félix Tshisekedi has failed to deliver
LOUIS BAHATI, a teacher at a primary school in Goma, a city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has not been paid for more than two years. Struggling to feed his family and on strike for a second time, he took up a job painting a neighbour’s house. When a passing pupil spotted him, he was humiliated. “My class mocked me,” he says. “The student told them that he had seen their teacher, covered in dirt, doing this painting work.”
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “All the president’s promises”
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