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DRC's Francophone Games under audit for overspending

President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi celebrates victory with the soccer team from Cameroon who won the soccer tournament at the 9th Francophone Games in Kinshasa, on 6 August 2023. AFP - ALEXIS HUGUET

Organisers of the Francophone Games in Kinshasa are being blamed for vast overspending. Their financial auditors had just arrived on Sunday in DRC to investigate this summer's games.

The auditors from the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF), the French-speaking equivalent of the Commonwealth, are in the central African nation for five days after landing Sunday for a mission planned before controversy over overspending erupted.

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