France, May 24 -- Four candidates are competing to lead the OIF when member states vote in November 2026.

Speaking to RFI during a campaign visit to Paris, Lumumba said the organisation must move beyond governments and elites, reconnect with ordinary people and do more for young people and conflict mediation.

She also spoke about DRC's latest Ebola outbreak, and her family's decades-long search for the truth about her father's 1961 assassination.

RFI: Your country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is facing a new Ebola outbreak. Are you worried?

Juliana Lumumba: No, I'm not worried, because this is the 17th Ebola outbreak and DRC is one of the countries with the greatest expertise on this disease. Bear in mind that Professor [Jea...