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| UN mission says rights repression must stop | |
UN News Centre - July 27, 2006 | |
 | Affirming that security forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been routinely abusing journalists and other civilians since the start of its election campaign, the United Nations mission in the country (MONUC) calls for a guarantee of free speech and an end to impunity in a report released today. |
| Annan warns against political repression in lead-up to Congolese elections | |
UN News Centre - July 22, 2006 | |
 | Expressing concern over reports of political repression in the lead-up to the historic elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) planned for 30 July, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged all Congolese, and especially the candidates, to ensure that the electoral process is free, fair and open. |
| Trafficking in illicit arms in DR Congo is a 'genuine threat' to peace: UN team | |
UN News Centre - July 21, 2006 | |
 | Documenting repeated violations of the Security Council's arms embargo against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a team of experts appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned today that illicit trafficking represents a "genuine threat" to peace and called for close cooperation with the UN mission in the country to address the problem, particularly in the run-up to the 30 July elections. |
| Condemning rights abuses, UN official urges Congolese authorities to respect law | |
UN News Centre - July 20, 2006 | |
 | Condemning recent abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where demonstrators have faced opposition in violation of their right to freedom of expression, a United Nations official in the country today called on the authorities to respect its new Constitution. |
| Kinshasa accepts militia leader's plea to join army | |
IRIN - July 17, 2006 | |
 | The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has responded positively to a request by a militia leader in the northeastern district of Ituri to be integrated into the national army. |
| W. Swing: The freedom of the press is one of the pillars of any democratic country | |
Monuc - July 15, 2006 | |
 | William Swing, the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary General in the DRC, inaugurated, on Thursday July 13 2006, a seminar entitled "MONUC, the media and the elections". |
| Second Carter Center Statement on the Election Preparations in the Democratic Republic of Congo | |
Carter Center - July 12, 2006 | |
 | The presidential and legislative election campaigns are now slowly underway across the country. While there has been an improvement in the quality of the information put out by political parties and candidates, there is still a tendency to politicize and sensationalize relatively straight-forward technical issues and unjustly undermine confidence in the electoral process. |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
