News | European Union
| EU Sends Reinforcements as Congo Fighting Continues | |
VOA News - August 22, 2006 | |
 | The European Union says it rushed in three helicopters and 50 Special Forces soldiers from Gabon Tuesday. Its spokesman says he expects up to 500 more troops to arrive there soon. These will add to the 1,000 European troops who are supporting the United Nations' 17,000-strong peacekeeping mission in Congo. |
| Officials Appeal for Calm in Congo After Kinshasa Gunbattles | |
VOA News - August 22, 2006 | |
 | Officials are appealing for calm in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after three days of gunbattles between supporters of the two main presidential candidates. |
| Congo's capital calm after results night gunbattle | |
Monuc/Reuters - August 21, 2006 | |
 | Congolese police and U.N. peacekeepers patrolled the capital Kinshasa on Monday hours after the announcement of an election run-off was overshadowed by battles between soldiers loyal to the two leading candidates. |
| BBC - Kabila takes DR Congo vote lead | |
Monuc/BBC - August 10, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's interim president, Joseph Kabila, has taken the lead in early results from last month's landmark elections. |
| EU: To give an overall national tendency is very premature and irresponsible | |
Monuc - August 9, 2006 | |
 | The European Union Electoral Observer Mission in the DRC (EU EOM) said this Tuesday August 8 2006 that there were some difficulties in the electoral process in the DRC and that they will continue to observe closely the electoral process. |
| Two elections held, four more to go | |
IRIN - August 1, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo's first democratic elections since 1960 were held on Sunday for the presidency and parliament but the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) must now prepare for four more elections between October and January 2007. |
| DR Congo holds watershed general elections | |
Xinhua - July 30, 2006 | |
 | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sunday is holding its first democratic presidential and legislative elections since independence more than four decades ago, hoping to turn a new page for the war-devastated nation. |
| 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). |
| Congolese Rebels Reach Peace Accord Ahead of Elections | |
VOA News - July 27, 2006 | |
 | The United Nations says rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to lay down their weapons in advance of Sunday's elections - the country's first multi-party balloting in more than 40 years. |
| 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. |
