News | Joseph Kabila
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Suspend poll campaigns, 19 presidential candidates say | |
IRIN - July 5, 2006 | |
 | Nineteen out of 33 presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have called for the suspension of ongoing election campaigns to allow for what they term as "transparency" in the country's first democratic elections in 45 years. |
| 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. |
| A vote for a piece of soap | |
IRIN - June 20, 2006 | |
 | The men and women in Yasira market have no illusions about the upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the benefit their votes will bring. "We expect presents from candidates, otherwise we will not vote for them," 20-year-old Lobela Lionda told IRIN. |
