Kinshasa, May 18th, 2025 (CPA).- A health march in support of the Congolese Army and the Wazalendo has been organised on Saturday from the Ngaba roundabout to Lemba Super, in the centre of Kinshasa, on the occasion of the national day of the Armed Forces celebrated each year on May 17th.
‘We have come today for the health march, to support the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) as well as the Wazalendo. We have chosen the colour red because it symbolises the blood that has been shed for a long time in the east of our country, our brothers and families have been killed because of our own wealth’, has declared Abigail Kisalu, coordinator of the NGO “Congo our business (C.N.A)”.
‘We want to sympathise with them together, which is why we chose the date of May 17th because it is a historic date for the Democratic Republic of Congo,’ she has added. ‘Together let us support the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the Wazalendo’, it is read in the posters of the NGO ‘Congo our business’, which has placed this march under the theme: ‘Congo a business for all’.
‘I had launched a vibrant call for the mobilisation of all the members of our structure and our presidium in general for a health march on this day. This initiative is part of a show of solidarity with the people of the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, victims of the armed violence perpetrated by the M23 rebels and their allies’, she has continued. She believes, moreover, that it is time for every Congolese, wherever they may be, to say stop to the massacres.
This march, she has said, is a peaceful but powerful way of showing compassion, unity and categorical rejection of the aggression to which the people of the East are being subjected. According to Abigael Kisalu, this march, although organised under the banner of health and peace, also has a highly symbolic significance. Its aim is not only to promote national cohesion, but above all to draw the attention of the international community to the seriousness of the security situation in the East of DRC.