News | Police
| 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. |
| Trio in military court over journalist's murder | |
IRIN - July 13, 2006 | |
 | Three suspects have appeared before a military tribunal in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, facing murder charges over the death of a journalist and his wife eight months ago. |
| Riot Police Break Up Congo Poll Protest | |
VOA News - July 11, 2006 | |
 | Riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades to break up a protest in the middle of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital. The demonstration had been called by more than half of the 33 presidential candidates for the upcoming July 30 elections. |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| EU military communications advance team arrives | |
IRIN - June 8, 2006 | |
 | A 20-member advance team of the European Union (EU) force charged with safeguarding the first general elections in 45 years in the Congo has arrived in the capital, Kinshasa, a spokesman for the force said on Thursday |
| 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. |
