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Praise and criticism for DRC elections in observer reports
Electoral commission workers sitting atop a truck entering the Fikin counting centre, Kinshasa, 30 November
The results of international and national observation missions to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 2011 elections were presented in Kinshasa on Thursday. The European Union said the process was “inadequately controlled” while Congolese observers said they had seen irregularities at 15 per cent of polling stations.
Q&A: Andres Perello Rodriquez, EU observer mission
Leonie Kandolo, CAFCO observer mission
Rupiah Banda, former Zambian president, Carter Center
Voting chaos and pockets of violence mar DRC elections
Voters searching for their names on the voter list in Matete, Kinshasa
Missing ballot papers and problems with voter lists kicked off the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential elections on Monday, with scattered pockets of violence throughout the country. RFI visited polling stations in Kinshasa, where frustrations ran high.
Q&A: Dominique Struye, Belgium’s Ambassador to DRC
Q&A: John Stremlau, Election Observer, Carter Center
Calm before the storm? DRC goes to the polls
Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo go to the polls on Monday in the country’s second election since civil war. Kinshasa had returned to calm on Sunday after a standoff at the capital’s international airport and violence that left up to eight people dead. The DRC’s electoral commission chief has once again said everything will be ready in time.
Q&A: Malefetsane Nkhahle, SADC ECF
DRC election challenger in campaign rally airport standoff
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo blocked incumbent President Joseph Kabila’s main challenger on Saturday at the capital’s international airport ahead of the country’s presidential elections. Etienne Tshisekedi and his UDPS party supporters were stopped by police after Kinshasa’s governor André Kimbuta Yango banned campaigning following violence.
Report: DRC election – Campaigning cancelled
Police ban rallies in DRC as violence erupts on final day of campaigning
With just two days two days left until voters go to the polls in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential elections, police in Kinshasa have banned campaign rallies. This follows the death of a man near the airport where thousands of people had gathered to meet the election’s main rivals, Joseph Kabila and Etienne Tshisekedi.
Report: DRC elections – Possible delay
E.Guinea coup plot had US, UK backing, claims ex-mercenary Simon Mann
A former mercenary has revealed that a 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea had the backing of the Spanish, British and US authorities. In his new book, Cry Havoc, Simon Mann gives an account of the failed coup that aimed to replace President Teodoro Obiang Nguema with an exiled opposition leader.
Interview: Simon Mann, former mercenary & author of Cry Havoc
Libya will not be governed by extremists, says new PM
Abdurrahim el-Keib
In an exclusive interview on Tuesday Libya’s new interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib told RFI that worries over the introduction of sharia law in Libya are unfounded. He says his new government will do its “best” to stop human rights abuses and investigate those that have already taken place.
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