The import of beers and non-alcoholic sparkling drinks is suspended for a year, as is that of grey cement and clinker in south-western and south-eastern parts of the country, to encourage the consumption of domestic products and strengthen competitiveness

The resumption of schooling in the armed crisis zones in the north-east of the country has not been guaranteed, given the difficulties of running classrooms with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and a protest strike calling for a boycott

The government asked Japan to donate at least 2 million doses of measles vaccine

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution authorising the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo MONUSCO to provide operational and logistical support to the Southern African Development Community peacekeeping mission

Reporters Without Borders turns the spotlight on the situation suffered by the local media: at least 14 radio stations are now inactive, six have been looted, five are now broadcasting under the control of the M23 rebels