| DRC Election Officials Working Overtime to Prepare Results | |
VOA News - July 31, 2006 | |
![]() | Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are working around the clock to prepare results from most polling centers in the country's first election in more than 40 years. Voting is continuing in one central mining area, where anti-vote militants disrupted the process Sunday. Final results will not be available until the end of August. |
| Vote Counting Starts in Congo Amid Tension | |
VOA News - July 30, 2006 | |
![]() | Vote counting has started in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo amid renewed tension over the outcome in the country's first open election in over 40 years. There was some rioting in a mining town, causing voting to be postponed there, but no widespread violence. |
| Congolese Vote in First Open Election in Four Decades | |
VOA News - July 30, 2006 | |
![]() | Under the whizzing of helicopters many polling centers opened late, but turnout appeared substantial. Voting was slow, but orderly. |
| Congo Conducts Historic Vote | |
AP - July 30, 2006 | |
![]() | Millions of Congolese voted in the country's first multiparty election in four decades Sunday, the culmination of years of postwar transition that many pray will herald stability for the tumultuous central Africa region that Congo anchors. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |