Washington, DC — Today, the Congressional Black Caucus Foreign Affairs and National Security Task Force, co-chaired by Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), top Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Africa, and Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas), hosted an Africa Policy Breakfast Forum to discuss the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The forum was attended by more than 200 people. The expert panel, which was moderated by former Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, featured three experts on the crisis in the DRC, one of whom flew to the United States from the Congo to participate just for this forum. The panel consisted of Kambale Musavuli, who is the spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, Sylvain Saluseke, who is a youth activist for LUCHA, a youth movement in Congo which demands social justice, and Mike Jobbins, Senior Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Search for Common Ground.
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