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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Interview with Apollinaire Malumalu, president of Independent Electoral Commission | |
IRIN - June 14, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is set to hold its first series of elections in 45 years on 30 July. There have been many obstacles and delays: The country is huge, with few roads, and is in the process of emerging from a decade of civil conflict |
| Interview with Valentin Mubake, representative of the opposition UDPS | |
IRIN - June 14, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is preparing to hold its first democratic elections in 45 years on 30 July, but the main political opposition party is not participating. |
| Demo held over polls as UN team visits Kinshasa | |
IRIN - June 13, 2006 | |
 | Thousands of Congolese on Monday took to the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, to demand negotiations that would see the main opposition party included in the country's electoral process. |
| Interview with William Swing, UN Secretary-General's Special Representative | |
IRIN - June 13, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to hold its first elections in 45 years on 30 July. Donors are providing almost half a billion dollars to fund the polls, and the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, known as MONUC, is responsible for transporting the electoral personnel and voting material to 53,000 polling sites around the country. |
| To vote, or not to vote? | |
IRIN - June 8, 2006 | |
 | Among the many political problems weighing on this giant, war-weary nation as it staggers towards its first elections in 40 years, is the fact that its main opposition has missed the deadline to register. |
| South African institute discounts "coup plot" theory following arrests | |
IRIN - May 28, 2006 | |
The South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) has ruled out chances that the men arrested and identified as foreign mercenaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were plotting a coup or planning to destabilise the country ahead of 30 July elections. | |
| 32 "mercenaries" arrested in Kinshasa | |
IRIN - May 24, 2006 | |
 | Security agents in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arrested 32 foreigners on Tuesday for plotting a coup against the government of Joseph Kabila, Interior Minister Theophilus Mbemba said. |
| Elections to be held on 30 July, polls body says | |
IRIN - May 1, 2006 | |
Presidential and parliamentary elections, the first in nearly 40 years since independence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will be held on 30 July, Independent Electoral Commission Chairman Apollinaire Muholongo Malumalu announced on Sunday. | |
