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| Congolese Vote in First Open Election in Four Decades | |
VOA News - July 30, 2006 | |
 | Under the whizzing of helicopters many polling centers opened late, but turnout appeared substantial. Voting was slow, but orderly. |
| Congo Conducts Historic Vote | |
AP - July 30, 2006 | |
 | Millions of Congolese voted in the country's first multiparty election in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for the tumultuous central Africa region that Congo anchors. |
| Vote starts with good turnout | |
IRIN - July 30, 2006 | |
 | In the first democratic elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in more than 40 years, people started lining up early in the morning in many voting stations in Kinshasa and the east. |
| Congolese Hope For The Best, Brace For The Worst | |
VOA News - July 29, 2006 | |
 | On the eve of the Democratic Republic of Congo's first open election in over forty years, many Congolese are hoping for the best, but bracing for the worst. Many are worried about the outcome of the post-war election, once results are announced. |
| Finding an end to violence | |
IRIN - July 28, 2006 | |
 | A significant number of combatants from the various conflicts in Congo since 1996 have still not disarmed and many continue to destabilise the country, despite the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement in 2002. |
| Violence rising as elections near | |
IRIN - July 28, 2006 | |
 | Columns of smoke rose over Kinshasa on Thursday as political violence claimed the lives of three policemen and at least three civilians ahead of Sunday's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
| Explosion Coincides With Congolese Rebel Rally | |
VOA News - July 27, 2006 | |
 | In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a fire has broken out at the security camp of a former rebel leader just as he was holding a large campaign rally in the capital Kinshasa ahead of Sunday's post-war election. |
| UN Has Security Concerns for Congo's Elections | |
VOA News - July 26, 2006 | |
 | U.N. officials have expressed confidence in the overall success for Sunday's post-war election in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo, but have also raised several security concerns. Some political militants want the vote postponed, pockets of the Congo remain unstable, while many candidates are refusing to campaign. |
| Official Says Congo Elections Going Ahead Despite Violence, Boycott Threats | |
VOA News - July 25, 2006 | |
 | Congo's Independent Electoral Commission says recent violence and threats of a boycott will not stop Sunday's national election. Commission Member Grace Lula tells VOA that commission police, along with troops from the European Union, are standing by to protect citizens at the polls. |
| African Nations Say Congo Set for Free and Fair Elections | |
VOA News - July 18, 2006 | |
 | A body of southern African nations, closely following the Democratic Republic of Congo's historic elections, says the poll later this month can be free and fair. Candidates are campaigning in the country's interior, violence erupted at a rally and complaints of irregularities continue. |
