Bemba rejects poll results | |
IRIN - November 17, 2006 | |
Jean-Pierre Bemba, challenger to President Joseph Kabila, has rejected the provisional results of the run-off presidential poll announced by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Independent Electoral Commission. | |
Challenger Bemba Rejects Congo Election Results | |
VOA News - November 16, 2006 | |
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the loser of Congo's presidential election said Thursday he will use all legal means to fight the results - a signal that the former rebel leader does not intend to use the force of hundreds of armed troops at his disposal. | |
Joseph Kabila elected new president of DRC | |
Monuc - November 16, 2006 | |
On Wednesday evening November 15 2006, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) announced the provisional results that make Joseph Kabila the new president of the DRC, with 58.05% of the votes, against a total of 41.95% of the votes for his presidential rival Jean Pierre Bemba. | |
Kabila wins presidential election | |
IRIN - November 16, 2006 | |
The Democratic Republic of Congo's Independent Electoral Commission has declared Joseph Kabila winner of a run-off presidential poll that marked the end of the country's three-year transition to democracy. | |
Kabila Declared Winner in Congo's Presidential Election | |
VOA News - November 16, 2006 | |
The Democratic Republic of Congo's incumbent President Joseph Kabila has won the country's first free and open presidential election in more than four decades. In results released late Wednesday, Mr. Kabila garnered 58 percent of ballots cast.Apolinnaire Malumalu, president of the Independent Electoral Commission, responding to allegations of election fraud It was on state-owned television | |
Electoral commission declares incumbent Kabila winner of Congo's presidential runoff | |
AP - November 15, 2006 | |
Incumbent President Joseph Kabila was declared the winner Wednesday of Congo's tense runoff election, defeating his rival and ex-rebel leader, Jean-Pierre Bemba, in the country's first multiparty contest in more than four decades. | |
DRC Provisional Results Give Kabila Victory | |
VOA News - November 15, 2006 | |
The final vote count in the October 29 election in the Democratic Republic of Congo puts Transitional President Joseph Kabila far ahead of his opponent, former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba. However, the election commission has not yet declared a winner because of charges of cheating made by Mr. Bemba's side. | |
Appeal for calm as country awaits poll result | |
IRIN - November 15, 2006 | |
Foreign envoys monitoring the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday appealed for calm while armed forces patrolled the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, amid rising tension between supporters of presidential contenders Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba. | |
Bemba camp contests partial election results | |
Monuc - November 15, 2006 | |
The political office of the "Union pour la Nation" (UpN), the political platform that supports presidential candidate Jean Pierre Bemba, denounced on Tuesday November 14 2006 the partial results given by the IEC, and affirmed that Mr. Bemba is in the lead, with 52.5% of the 11,954,758 ballots cast. | |
Police arrest 337 over Kinshasa clashes | |
IRIN - November 13, 2006 | |
Police in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have arrested 337 people, including 87 children, over violence that rocked the city on Saturday, Interior Minister Denis Kalume said on Monday. |