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| UN Peacekeepers Freed, Journalist Killed in Congo | |
VOA News - July 10, 2006 | |
 | Congolese militia fighters released Saturday the five remaining Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers they have been holding since late May, U.N. officials have said. In other developments, gunmen killed a journalist who was a vocal critic of Congos government. |
| Army suspends demobilisation, disarmament | |
IRIN - July 7, 2006 | |
 | The disarmament and demobilisation programme of the Congolese army has been suspended due to lack of funds, according to François Atufuka Mbuze, spokesman for the National Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (CONADER).Atufuka said CONADER had closed 18 orientation centres across the country on 30 June. |
| Deadline for militias to disarm extended to 15 July | |
IRIN - July 6, 2006 | |
 | The deadline for militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern district of Ituri to voluntarily surrender and join a disarmament and demobilisation programme has been extended to 15 July.The deadline has been extended because we are seeing up to 250 combatants coming to disarm every day. |
| Suspend poll campaigns, 19 presidential candidates say | |
IRIN - July 5, 2006 | |
 | Nineteen out of 33 presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have called for the suspension of ongoing election campaigns to allow for what they term as "transparency" in the country's first democratic elections in 45 years. |
| Gunmen Retake Congo Stronghold from UN, Army | |
VOA News - July 5, 2006 | |
 | Congolese gunmen have launched an offensive and retaken their stronghold in the lawless east. The capture of Tchei, in Ituri district, is a setback for the U.N. and government forces that chased militia away just weeks ago and are struggling to pacify Congo ahead of elections later this month. |
| Election campaigns begin | |
IRIN - June 30, 2006 | |
 | Presidential aspirants in the Democratic Republic of Congo kicked off their nationwide campaigns on Friday for the country's first democratic elections in 45 years, due on 30 July."The 30-day nationwide campaign is officially launched," Apollinaire Malumalu, chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission, said. |
| Militiamen disarm ahead of deadline | |
IRIN - June 29, 2006 | |
 | At least 1,100 former militias have arrived at transit sites in Ituri, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the past three days, ahead of a 30 June ultimatum by the Congolese army for them to disarm, an official said. |
| UN gives big financial support to DRCongo election | |
Xiuan - June 29, 2006 | |
The United Nations has made the largest investment of this type in its history, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the central African nation's first election in 45 years, the UN special representative to the DRC said on Thursday. | |
| Congo Faces Challenges in Holding First Democratic Poll in 40 Years | |
VOA News - June 29, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo is beginning campaigning for the first democratic elections in over 40 years. The difficulties the nation faces in staging such an election are evident in the fact that the date has been pushed back several times over the past year. VOA's Catherine Maddux examines how prepared the vast, war-scarred nation is to hold the ballot on July 30. |
| EU troops arriving in Congo, can use force if need be - force commander | |
IRIN - June 26, 2006 | |
 | Advance teams of the European Union's Force for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), known as EUFOR DRCongo, have begun arriving in the capital, Kinshasa. The force was established at the request of the United Nations to support the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC), during the country's first democratic general elections in 45 years, scheduled for 30 July. |
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