DR Congo’s new opposition coalition launched in Kinshasa

The Democratic Republic of Congo has a new opposition political platform and it has declared war on what it has described as “the old order”.

Launched on Wednesday in Kinshasa by Jean-Marc Kabund, the Coalition of the Congolese Left has pledged to break with corruption and the country’s “predatory system”.

The former leader of the ruling Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party, Kabund was released from prison in…