Posts Tagged ‘Joseph Kabila’
Police admit killing four in DRC post-election violence
The chief of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s police has confirmed that his forces killed four people in post-election violence but declared the situation under control Sunday. It’s “hard to predict” whether the situation will deteriorate further, according to rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Q&A: Anneke Van Woudenberg, DRC specialist, Human Rights Watch
Kabila leads DRC elections with half polling stations counted
Packets of ballot papers lying on the floor at the Fikin International compilation centre in Kinshasa
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s incumbent president Joseph Kabila is leading the presidential election, according to partial results announced on Sunday. The country’s electoral commission said Kabila leads his main rival Etienne Tshisekedi by over 1.5 million ballots.
Etienne Tshisekedi
Vital Kamerhe
Q&A Lambert Mende, DRC Communications Minister
Kabila leads in partial results from DRC polls
Ballot boxes at the Fikin International compilation centre in Kinshasa
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s incumbent president Joseph Kabila is leading the presidential election, according to partial results announced by the country’s electoral commission on Friday. The figures represent 15 per cent of the country’s polling stations and include almost no results from Kinshasa.
Report from Kinshasa
Electoral commission chief Daniel Ngoy Mulunda
UDPS party says five provinces secured in DRC elections
A burnt out jeep on Avenue Munene outside the Ecole Dyavanga polling station, Kinshasa, 29 November
As votes are tallied and counted in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential elections the main opposition UDPS party told RFI on Tuesday that despite fraud they are confident of securing victory. Etienne Tshisekedi’s party says they have secured enough for a majority and do not want to see the vote annulled.
Q&A: Ferdinand Nkashama, Secretary of the Election Surveillance Commission, UDPS
Q&A: Justin, Militant, UDPS
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.
