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Rhumba maestro Koffi Olomide to run for DR Congo senate seat

Rhumba maestro Koffi Olomide

Rhumba Maestro Koffi Olomide speaks to the media at the Ole Sereni hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, March 9, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

By  Patrick Ilunga

Contributor based in Kinshasa, DRC

Nation Media Group

Popular Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Singer Koffi Olomide has declared interest in running for election to the Senate in the country.

He is due to stand in the province of Sud-Ubangi, in north-west Congo in the April 22 polls on behalf of the AFDC-A party.

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