| Parliament adopts electoral law, poll schedule | |
IRIN - February 22, 2006 | |
Parliament has adopted a bill giving the Independent Electoral Commission 110 days to organise national democratic elections as soon as Congo's President Joseph Kabila signs the document into law, the commission's second vice-president, Norbert Bansegezi Kantintima, said on Wednesday. | |
| Opposition politician ends boycott of upcoming polls | |
IRIN - January 3, 2006 | |
Veteran politician Etienne Tshisekedi reversed on Monday his call for a boycott of general elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due in 2006. | |
| Stakes high for vote on draft constitution | |
IRIN - December 15, 2005 | |
Almost 25 million voters in the DRC could prepare the way for the country's first presidential and parliamentary elections if they accept the draft constitution that is to be presented to them on Sunday in a referendum, senior diplomats said in Kinshasa. | |
| Elections: registration proceeds despite opposition boycott | |
MISNA - July 19, 2005 | |
Over 2.5-million citizens have registered to vote since the start of the census operations on June 20, as referred by the Independent Electoral Commission of Kinshasa. Also specifying that the aim is to register all voters of the capital, 3.5-million people on a population of 6,8-m, by the beginning of August. | |
| Kinshasa: demonstrators on the streets | |
MISNA - June 30, 2005 | |
Tension is escalating in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the police and soldiers are intervening to disperse the young demonstrators that took the streets this morning in protest against the extension of the transition and postponement of elections. | |
| Seven killed in demonstrations, hundreds arrested | |
IRIN - June 30, 2005 | |
At least seven protestors were killed and hundreds more arrested in demonstrations on Thursday in various suburbs Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other urban areas. | |
| UN mediates in aftermath of conflict in Mbuji-Mayi | |
IRIN - May 24, 2005 | |
The UN is mediating among political parties in Mbuji-Mayi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai Oriental Province, following last week's violence. | |
| Police impose curfew on Mbuji-Mayi after protests | |
IRIN - May 18, 2005 | |
Police imposed a curfew beginning late Tuesday in Mbuji-Mayi, a major mining town in central Democratic Republic of Congo, following violent demonstrations in which at least two people died and 12 others were wounded. | |
| Officials trade blame for delaying elections | |
IRIN - January 12, 2005 | |
Since an announcement on Friday that the electoral commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo may not be able to hold elections by 30 June as scheduled, various political groups and officials involved in the transition have been accusing each other of causing the delay. | |
