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Congo-Kinshasa: Opposition Rejects Election Delay
DW, 21 December 2018
Opposition parties in the DRC have condemned the decision by the electoral commission to postpone the December 23 vote. The postponement threatens to throw the mineral-rich country… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Election Postponement Deals Further Blow to Voter Confidence
DW, 21 December 2018
Elections in DRC have been postponed by seven days - a ridiculously short time against the background of the country's many problems, says DW's Dirke Köpp. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Electoral Commission Postpones Voting By a Week
DW, 20 December 2018
The announcement marked the latest step in a two-year saga of vote delays in Kinshasa. The presidential election is meant to mark Congo's first democratic transition of power. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: 'Election is Time of Reckoning for Congolese People'
allAfrica, 19 December 2018
If the presidential election scheduled for Sunday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo actually takes place, it could lead to the first “peaceful” transfer of power… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Steps New Government Must Take to Get the DRC Onto a Sounder Footing
The Conversation Africa, 20 December 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been consumed by conflict and instability over the past two decades. The state is weak while unemployment is rife and good health care… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Four Humanitarian Challenges for Congo's Next Leader
IRIN, 20 December 2018
As elections to replace President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo were reportedly postponed on Thursday, after a delay already of more than two years, a host of… Read more »
DR Congo Election Delayed - Again
Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, already postponed several times since 2016, have been postponed by another week. In a guest column for AllAfrica, written before the postponement was announced, Congolese democracy activist Kambale Musavuli expressed doubt as to whether the electoral commission could successfully organise an election.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Bad Times for Democracy in DR Congo
DW, 19 December 2018
Pre-election chaos, fears of vote rigging in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- the timing of elections so close to Christmas is no coincidence, says DW's Dirke Köpp. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Congo's Election Sham
Atlantic Council, 19 December 2018
Joseph Kabila's reluctant withdrawal from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's December 23 presidential election, after seventeen years in power, was supposed to be a big victory… Read more »
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Africa: How to Get Ahead in DR Congo Politics - a Flatterer's Guide
African Arguments, 18 December 2018
Share. Don't be ambitious. Get close to the president's friends. And don't forget to flatter. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Campaigning Violently Suppressed
HRW, 17 December 2018
Government security forces across the Democratic Republic of Congo have forcibly dispersed opposition campaign rallies ahead of the December 23, 2018 national elections. Security… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Voters Want Change, and They Want it Now
VOA, 19 December 2018
Landu Kumbakidioko does not care who wins Sunday's hotly contested election in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: Millions Without Aid As Elections Loom
Norwegian Refugee Council, 18 December 2018
As the world turns its attention to the upcoming elections in Democratic Republic of the Congo this Sunday, the Norwegian Refugee Council cautions not to lose sight of the millions… Read more »
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Southern Africa: SADC Calls for Democracy in DRC Elections
Namibia Economist, 17 December 2018
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has expressed solidarity with the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of the country's upcoming Presidential,… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Elections - Kabila Hints He Could Return
Nation, 15 December 2018
With less than two weeks to the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and even with reports that fire broke out at the warehouse of the electoral body in… Read more »
InFocus
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The head of the Independent National Election Commission Corneille Nangaa has said that the fire broke out around 2am in a building where election materials were being kept. Read more »
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First imposed in 2016, and renewed in 2017, the EU has extended sanctions on presidential hopeful Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary and fifteen other top officials until 2019. Read more »
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Aid agencies working in the country say new figures from the UN that show a large drop in the number of displaced people are misleading, accusing it of bowing to government ... Read more »
