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| Etienne Tshisekedi to Run for President in 2011 | |
ACP - August 19, 2010 | |
 | Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, national president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, announced on Wednesday his candidacy for president in next year’s elections. "Now that I am healthy again, I want to reorganize my party and put it into battle mode. So that, tomorrow, it may be able to run the country,” he said during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium. |
| Electoral Commission Sets Date for 2011 Presidential Election | |
ACP - August 9, 2010 | |
 | The first round of presidential and parliamentary elections in the DRC will be held on November 27, 2011. The head of the Independent Electoral Commission, Apolinaire Malu Malu, released the schedule on Monday during a press conference in Kinshasa. |
| Congo Army Killed Ugandan Rebels Commander in North Kivu - Government | |
Le Potentiel - August 4, 2010 | |
 | The commander in chief of the Ugandan rebel ADF/NALU, colonel Katodo, was killed by the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) during operation Ruwenzori in North Kivu Province, Information Minister and government spokesman Lambert Mende said on Tuesday at a press conference in Kinshasa. |
| Congo Catholic Bishops Praise U.S. Law on 'Conflict Minerals' | |
Forum des As - August 3, 2010 | |
 | The head of the National Conference of Bishops (CENCO), Bishop Nicolas Djomo, said during a press conference in Kinshasa on Monday that the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo is determined to campaign for the recently enacted U.S. law on ‘conflict minerals’, so that it is applied in the DRC. |
| Opposition, NGOs Vow to Join Forces to Fight 'Erosion of Democracy' | |
Radio Okapi - July 31, 2010 | |
 | During a meeting held on Friday in Kinshasa, members of the political opposition and human rights NGOs vowed to join forces to fight what they called the erosion of democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The two sides stressed the need to fight together to head off the clamp down on freedom of expression and freedom of the press they are facing these days under the current authorities. |
| Officials Revise Death Toll from Boat Accident | |
ACP - July 30, 2010 | |
 | Officials say that 44 people are still missing after a boat sunk on Wednesday in Bandundu Province. Earlier reports had put the death toll at around 140 people. The governor of Bandundu Province, Richard Ndambu Wolang, said from Kinshasa on Friday that five bodies have been pulled from the waters and eighty five people survived the accident. |
| 138 Dead after Boat Sinks on Kasai River | |
Radio Okapi - July 29, 2010 | |
 | At least 138 people are dead after a boat sunk on the Kasai River on Wednesday in Bandundu province. Officials said the boat was headed to Kinshasa and the accident happened near the village of Lingala, downstream the Kasai River — a tributary of the Congo River — near the city of Kwamouth. |
| Rights Group Says Arms Transport Needs Regulation | |
VOA News - July 19, 2010 | |
 | States are failing to control the transport of weapons around the world, says a new report from London-based watchdog Amnesty International. Transport companies registered in China, France, the Russian Federation, Britain and the United States move weapons to countries where they could be used to commit human-rights violations. |
| President Kabila Pays Respects to Sange Victims | |
Congo News Agency - July 5, 2010 | |
 | President Joseph Kabila arrived in Bukavu on Monday morning and went straight from Kavumu airport to the bedsides of the victims of Friday night oil tanker explosion in Sange, who had been transferred to hospitals in the capital of South Kivu province. |
| Ban Ki-moon inaugurates new phase of UN mission in DR Congo | |
UN News - July 1, 2010 | |
 | From today, the UN mission will be known as the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) and will stay in the DRC only until 30 June next year. Last month, the Security Council passed a resolution authorizing the withdrawal of up to 2,000 UN military personnel – from an existing strength of 19,815 – by today from areas where security has improved enough to allow their removal. |
