The National Primary School Leaving Examination (ENAFEP) is a key moment for Congolese students. This year, the Minister of Primary Secondary and Technical Education, Professor Tony Mwaba Kazadi, kicked off the exam in Kisangani, while the Deputy Minister of EPST, Aminata Namasia, was in Kinshasa to supervise the conditions of award in the various centers.
Welcomed with enthusiasm at EP Bolingani in Kintambo, Aminata Namasia encouraged the finalist students to give their best to succeed in this decisive step in their school career. In a sober and warm atmosphere, she underlined the importance of the event while saluting the exemplary discipline of the Congolese students.
Then, she went to the CS Joyeux Lutins in Bandalungwa where she continued her visit and motivated the examiners to live up to the expectations of the candidates.
This is an opportunity to recall that ENAFEP concerns thousands of Congolese students, girls and boys, every year. This year, the Bolingani center received 1,516 recipients, while the CS Joyeux Lutins center recorded 515. This is proof of the vitality of education in the DRC and the commitment of students to succeed in their course. .
Beyond this decisive moment for the finalist students, education in the DRC is experiencing significant changes, in particular with the development of citizen movements which warn of the restriction of civic space and electoral pressure. Nevertheless, players are fighting for the development of entrepreneurship among young people, such as the Salon des jeunes entrepreneurs congolais, or for the release of political prisoners and the end of the dictatorship in the country, as recently recalled the deputies and senators of Together for the Republic.
Finally, the appointment of Julienne Lusenge to the post of deputy coordinator of the national mechanism for monitoring the Addis Ababa framework agreement in the DRC illustrates the importance of the representation of women in the consolidation of peace.
In short, education in the DRC is a crucial issue, but also a vector of development for the country. The challenges are many, but the positive initiatives exist and show the will to make things happen