The Democratic Republic of Congo has adopted decrees that grant ministers lifetime salaries and other benefits.
The two decrees, which grant former ministers benefits worth at least $2,000 (around AED 7,346), is not "to enrich the officials" the government explained in a statement.
The payments "are to stop them [ministers] from falling into destitution", it added.
The decision has been widely criticised, especially since the majority of the population in DR Congo lives in poverty.
Iran denies talks with US after Trump postpones strikes on power grid
Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran's power grid because of what he described as productive talks with unidentified Iranian officials.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy says Russia preparing new massive attack
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian intelligence believed Russian forces were preparing a new, imminent mass attack on the country.
Rockets launched from Iraq’s Mosul towards US base in Syria
At least seven rockets were launched from the Iraqi town of Rabi'a towards a US military base in northeastern Syria on Monday, two Iraqi security sources said, the first attack of its kind since the start of the US-Israeli military campaign on Iran.
One killed, 77 hospitalised after Colombian military plane crashes
At least one person was killed and 77 others hospitalised when a Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country's southern Amazon region on Monday.
Hong Kong police given new powers to obtain phone, computer passwords
Hong Kong police can now demand that people suspected of breaching the city's national security law provide mobile phone or computer passwords in a further crackdown on dissent.
ICE agents begin deploying at some US airports
US immigration agents began deploying at more than a dozen US airports on Monday to aid security screening as staffing absences by unpaid airport security officers have caused massive delays.
Air Canada jet collision shuts LaGuardia; pilots killed, dozens injured
An Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia airport late on Sunday, killing both pilots, injuring dozens and closing the facility, authorities said.
Kuwait launches probe into espionage, state security cases
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