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| Former DRC Rebel Concedes Election Defeat | |
VOA News - November 29, 2006 | |
 | Former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba has conceded defeat in the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The winner, Joseph Kabila, son of an assassinated former coup leader, will be inaugurated next week. |
| White House congratulates Kabila on his victory | |
White House - November 29, 2006 | |
 | The United States commends the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the completion of presidential run-off and provincial elections. We congratulate President Kabila on his victory in the run-off election and urge all parties to uphold the ruling by the Congolese Supreme Court. |
| Jean-Pierre Bemba to join the opposition | |
MISNA - November 29, 2006 | |
 | "In the name of the higher interest of the nation and with a concern to preserve peace and avoid the country's collapse in chaos and violence...I take responsibility and commit to lead a string republican opposition": so said Jean-Pierre Bemba. |
| DRC Waits for Losing Candidate's Reaction Following Official Election Results | |
VOA News - November 28, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo remains calm but tense after the Supreme Court certified the electoral victory of interim President Joseph Kabila. The losing candidate, former rebel and current Vice President, Jean-Pierre Bemba, has yet to concede. |
| Supreme Court validates Kabila presidential victory | |
IRIN - November 28, 2006 | |
 | The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared Joseph Kabila winner of a controversial presidential run-off election held on 29 October."The Supreme Court of Justice declares Joseph Kabila Kabange elected by an absolute majority," Benoit Lwamba Bindu, the court's first president, said in Kinshasa, the capital. |
| DRC Supreme Court confirms Joseph Kabila as President | |
Monuc - November 27, 2006 | |
 | The DRC Supreme Court on November 27 2006 confirmed Joseph Kabila as the new President of the DRC, and found against the legal protestations of election irregularities by his presidential rival Jean Pierre Bemba. |
| Congo Supreme Court Certifies Kabila Victory | |
VOA News - November 27, 2006 | |
 | The Supreme Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has certified the victory of incumbent President Joseph Kabila in October elections. His rival in the second round of voting, former Uganda-backed rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, had mounted a legal challenge to final results, saying there was fraud. |
| Army, UN troops retake Sake | |
IRIN - November 27, 2006 | |
 | Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have fled the eastern town of Sake in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was seized from army dissidents by United Nations and government troops on Monday, the commander of the 8th Military Region said. |
| Rights Groups Protest Eviction of Street Children From Congo's Capital | |
VOA News - November 26, 2006 | |
 | Human rights groups are protesting what they say is the eviction of street youths from Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa. Hundreds of children and young adults have been rounded up recently, and the adults sent to the province of Katanga a thousand kilometers away. Franz Wild recently visited Kinshasa, and files this report for VOA. |
| UN says it will support Congolese troops enforcing Kinshasa ultimatum if needed | |
UN News - November 25, 2006 | |
 | United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will support the Congolese army if needed in enforcing a 48-hour security ultimatum in the capital to remove forces loyal to the losing candidate in last month's presidential elections, the top UN envoy to the strife-torn country has said. |
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