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Source: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/12/178853.htm Provisional Results of the Presidential Election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Press Statement Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC December 14, 2011...
Translated by Jacques Bahati ( Download the French version here) Archdiocese of Kinshasa The Cardinal Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, 1. Sunday, December 4th, 2011, the CENCO [the National Episcopal Conference of Catholic Bishops] in a press conference and at...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson December 6, 2011 2011/2072 STATEMENT BY MARK TONER, DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON Presidential Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The United States remains deeply committed to supporting the democratic...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDec. 10, 2011Source: http://www.cartercenter.orgContact: Baya Kara in Kinshasa +243 81 240 7659 or Deborah Hakes in Atlanta +1 404 420 5124The Carter Center finds the provisional presidential election results announced by the Independent National...
On November 28th, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held its second presidential and parliamentary election since the devastating war that began in 1996 and continues to claim lives in the eastern part of the country. Assassinations, intimidation, and other human...
On December 4, 2011, the Africa Faith and Justice Network was mentioned in the interview "Rwanda Genocide survivor: My mother and I were ordered to dig our own graves" by Minister of Information JR in San Francisco Bay View. Claude Gatebuke, a Rwanda Genocide survivor...
This article from the Oct-Dec 2011 edition of Around Africa, by Aniedi Okure, AFJN Executive Director Encouragement for the Church in Africa and a challenge to the Universal Church On November 19th, 2011, in the Republic of Benin in West Africa, Pope Benedict XVI...
US finally said publicly what was previously told to Rwandan authorities in private. In her speech entitled "Building a New Nation: Rwanda's Progress and Potential" delivered at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology on November 26th, US Ambassador to the...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the second largest nation in Africa after Algeria, is again dominating the headlines for failure to organize free and fair elections. Some are blaming the country's size for the logistical failure, but there is no excuse...