Articles mention precisely the beer chosen by the Head of State, from a brand of French origin and widely established in the countries of the zone. If the presence of Fally Ipupa is attested – the singer has in turn relayed images of the evening – it also appears that several DRC officials joined in the festivities. We can thus cite the Minister of Media and Communication, Patrick Muyaya Katembwe, whose presence at the concert was attested a little earlier and who explained the reasons for his presence during a press conference.
The TF1 team who followed Emmanuel Macron during his African tour confirms that this visit took place shortly before he boarded the plane and left Kinshasa. At the airport precisely, the French press was present and waited, kept away from this trip. It was seriously envisaged that the Head of State, after having multiplied the formal events, would come into contact with the population before the end of his stay. This is what he ended up doing in the capital of the DRC, a night out in Kinshasa that his team feared, because of the security situation and the risk of incidents.
TF1info has learned from concordant sources that this outing in the city was not officially on the agenda. A moment of relaxation that Minister Patrick Muyaya Katembwe, also from Bandalungwa, justified quite simply: “the fact for President Macron to have heard ‘Bandal is Paris“he says, had given him during his stay “the idea of going there”.