Terrorism, Ebola are impeding development, DR Congo chief tells UN

25 September 2014 – President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned the United Nations today that global development was threatened by terrorism and the resurgence of the Ebola epidemic, pledging his country’s contribution to international efforts to combat the scourges.

“Collectively confronting [terrorism] is a moral obligation for all the Member States of our Organization as well as the only effective strategy if we want to rid ourselves surely and speedily of this atrocity,” he told leaders of 193 countries on the second day of the UN General Assembly’s 69th annual General Debate, referring to terrorist violence in Africa…

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