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UN hopes Congolese can ‘freely’ vote after delay
Presidential, legislative and provincial elections had been scheduled for 30 December in the vast, volatile African country.
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DRC election officials accused of trying to provoke trouble by delaying polls
Felix Tshisekedi, a leading opposition candidate, urged his supporters to stay calm despite the electoral board’s decision on Thursday to delay the vote by a week.
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[OPINION] Congo election shows flaws in Trump’s Africa strategy
For decades, Washington has paid little real attention to this nation so critical to Africa’s future and its new policy on the continent is focusing largely on the bitter competition with China and Russia for hegemony and how to take them on and win.
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US pulls non-essential staff out of DRC ahead of election
The embassies of Canada, Britain and Switzerland joined the US last week in expressing concern about the loss of ahead of the end-of-era poll.
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Bowing out as president, Congo's Kabila raises prospect of a return act
Kabila’s critics and some analysts say concerns about his personal security and the fortune reportedly amassed by his family could account for a seeming reluctance to cede power.
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DRC election body to strive for free, fair polls despite attack on building
President Joseph Kabila’s opponents accused him of the arson in a bid to delay the poll that’s already two years late.
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Nobel Peace prize laureate Mukwege worried Congo vote could lead to war
Mukwege will jointly receive the 2018 prize in Oslo for his work as a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the eastern Congo city of Bukavu.
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EU renews Congo sanctions ahead of presidential election
The decision is likely to worsen relations between the EU and President Joseph Kabila’s government, which has lobbied against sanctions it calls an illegal violation of its sovereignty.
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Congo's outgoing president Kabila doesn't rule out running again in 2023
The long-delayed elections will mark Congo’s first democratic transfer of power and an end to Kabila’s rule that began in 2001 after the assassination of his father.
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Kinshasa rejects US 'terrorist threat' warning
The conflict-prone central African country heads to the polls on 23 December to elect a successor to longtime President Joseph Kabila as well as lawmakers.
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DRC opposition chief says quitting joint candidate deal
Seven opposition leaders, meeting in Geneva on Sunday, picked little-known MP Martin Fayulu as their joint candidate in the December 23 vote to succeed President Joseph Kabila, in power for 18 years.
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DR Congo opposition picks joint presidential candidate
The elections are critical for the future of the DRC, a sprawling, mineral-rich country that has never experienced a peaceful transition of power since it gained independence from Belgium in 1960.
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Congo's controversial voting machines start arriving
President Joseph Kabila is due to step down after 17 years in power after a long-delayed vote scheduled for 23 December to choose his successor.
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Kabila calls on UN to get its forces out of his country
However, opposition leader Moïse Katumbi refutes Kibila’s insistence that the Kinshasa government can organise and pay for upcoming elections.
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At UN, Joseph Kabila vows 'peaceful & credible' DRC vote
In power for two decades, the Congolese president this year bowed to international pressure and agreed to step aside.
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Congo rejects presidential bid of opposition leader Bemba
Jean-Pierre Bemba had been seen as one of the frontrunners in the race to succeed incumbent Joseph Kabila.
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Outside help not wanted, says DR Congo as key elections loom
Organising elections among some 40 million voters in a troubled, impoverished state nearly five times the size of France is a huge challenge.
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Kabila rejects appointment of Thabo Mbeki as special envoy to DRC
President Joseph Kabila has closed that door having had a bad experience with other special envoys deployed to his country.
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Congo ruling coalition's presidential candidate to be announced soon
Spokesman Lambert Mende’s statement followed a meeting between Kabila and coalition members at his farm outside the capital Kinshasa.
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Congo police and opposition supporters clash in Kinshasa
Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi heads the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) and is the son of late opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi.
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Confusion over Moïse Katumbi’s return to DRC
Authorities in Katumbi’s former stronghold Lubumbashi say he’ll be denied entry.
