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EDITORIAL: Fair Elections, Still a Priority

1. RESOLVING THE POST-ELECTION CRISIS

2. THE PUBLICATION OF THE PROVISIONAL LEGISLATIVE RESULTS

3. THE STRATEGIES OF ETIENNE TSHISEKEDI AND THE UDPS

4. THE TRUTH OF THE BALLOTS STILL UNREVEALED

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Editorial: The search for the truth of the polls

1. Civil Society denounces killings and abductions

2. Etienne Tshisekedi is sworn in

3. Looting of the headquarters of the UDPS in Limete

4. Compiling the results of the General Election 2011

5. SMS service is resumed

6. The President of the Senate becomes victim of attack in Paris

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EDITORIAL: Congo is at risk of chaos among one proclamation and another

1. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: IRREGULARITIES AND FRAUDS

2. THE OPPOSITION LOOKS FOR STRATEGIES

3. POLITICAL CRISIS AT THE HORIZON

4. VERDICT OF THE SUPREME COURT

5. INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REACTION

6. ONCE AGAIN, TSHISEKEDI PROCLAIMS HIMSELF PRESIDENT

7. JOSEPH KABILA SWEARS AS PRESIDENT

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 EDITORIAL: IN ANTICIPATION

 There are ominous clouds of warning and worry before, on December 17th, the Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after reviewing the appeals filed with it, gives the final verdict on the results of the presidential elections. The protests by the opposition, the heavy military intervention of the state to repress opponents, the civilian casualties, the resurgence of old tensions between provinces supporting one or the other candidate (Katanga and Kasai), the reports by various national and international associations and institutions on the voting methods and the vote count, the individual positions … the people are growing more worried by the day.

It is not just the voting results or the victory of either of the two candidates that is worrying the people, but also the use of violence by each rival. By the winner, to suppress any attempt or desire for rebellion, and by the loser, for claiming his alleged rights.

Lack of confidence by the opposition parties with respect to the Supreme Court, which they consider beholden to the outgoing President, Joseph Kabila, is a threat. It may be hoped that they follow the advice given by the Cardinal Archbishop of Kinshasa, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, who, though declaring the results published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) contrary to the ‘truth and justice’, urged all aggrieved parties to approach the Supreme Court. How will they act?

Throughout these days, the ruling power intervened excessively through the police, in many cases, brutally to the extent of murdering civilians. Is there a risk of having a violent dictatorship under the guise of saving a democracy?

Right now, the strength of the DR Congo is its people, who no longer wish to enter into the spiral of violence. The strength of the DR Congo is also the international community, if it agrees to put its full weight behind having the outcome of the polls respected by all, despite the many blunders of the electoral process. More than ever, it is important now that we keep our eyes open on the DR Congo: the civil society and the entire population are asking for it. It’s for each of us to remember these people in our thoughts, and, for those who believe, in our prayers!

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EDITORIAL

1. INCREASING TENSION IN THE RUN-UP TO THE DECLARATION OF RESULTS

   – Premature declarations of victory and reactions

   – HRW condemns pre-election violence

2. GRADUAL RELEASE OF PARTIAL RESULTS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

   – The Electoral Commission begins publishing gradual results

   – Reactions of candidates and political parties

   – Calls of civil society

   – Suspension of text communications

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Editorial

1. ELECTION CAMPAIGN ENDS IN VIOLENCE

An Atmosphere of Uncertainty

The eve of the elections in Kinshasa: tension mounts, rallies cancelled. Tshisekedi defies the authorities’ ruling

Vital Kamerhe denounces the attitude of the authorities

2. THE CONDUCT OF THE ELECTIONS

The eve of the ballot

The day of the elections

3. INITIAL EVALUATION OF THE BALLOT

A debate during the broadcast “Dialogue Entre Congolaise”

Communiqué from AETA – EURAC

Communiqué from the European Union Election Observation Mission

4. ACCEPTANCE OF THE BALLOT RESULTS IN DANGER?

Etienne Thsisekedi’s declaration

Petition from Léon Kengowadondo, Antipas MbusaNyamwisi and Adam BomboleIntole

Communiqué from Vital Kamerhe

Press Conference by Daniel NgoyMulunda, President of the Electoral Commission

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Summary

Editorial

1. Electoral process

   – The Activities of the Electoral Commission

   – Recent Irregularities

   – Civil Disorder during Electioneering

   – Republic’s Institutions disrupted

   – Civil society speaks out

   – Elections 2011: a defining moment

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CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL

1. ELECTORAL PROCESS

– Actions of the INEC
– Beginning of the electoral campaign in a tense climate
– The UDPS begins its electoral campaign in a rather strange way
– Civil Society speaks out
– The International Community responds

EDITORIAL

The electoral campaign leading up to the presidential and parliamentary elections on the 28th of November is unfolding in a very worrying climate, which the archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, has already denounced during a press briefing on the 10th of November, where he condemned and stigmatised the acts which border on the barbaric.

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