Democratic Republic of the Congo: Dr. Mukwege prevented from attending a conference at the University of Kisangani

“The University is not in a position to guarantee the safety and protection of infrastructure and people in the event of an abuse. It is also unable to guarantee the physical and technical conditions of the activities“, adds the rector, also summons”A stark shortfall in logistics and energy“.

This decision of the Unikis Management Committee was strongly condemned by the relatives of Dr. Mukwege, assembled in an association called “The dynamics of Congolese academics(DUC), some of its members – such as Professors Alphonse Mindo and Billy Bulakonga – support the doctor’s candidacy for the presidential election scheduled for next year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Students and teachers are denied a golden opportunity to savor science. It’s anonymous vandalism

“I feel very ashamed to belong to an institution without a vision and without managing its international influence. How can you imagine that the management committee, which includes three professors, refuses to hold conferences for a world scientific body, Professor Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, for whom all universities are fighting? Students and teachers are denied a golden opportunity to savor science. It’s anonymous vandalism‘,” Professor Mindo told the Congolese media Politico.cd.