[Only 26 of the 54 member states of the African Union have so far ratified the protocol setting up the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, according to the President of the Court, Gerard Niyungeko]
BURUNDI :
Burundi : l’invasion des “paederus” provoque une prolifération des dermatites
Mardi 31 janvier 2012 /Xinhua
BUJUMBURA (Xinhua) – L’invasion des “paederus”, genre d’insectes qui causent des désagréments lorsqu’ils sont écrasés sur la peau humaine, provoque actuellement au Burundi une prolifération de dermatites.
Selon un Entomologiste burundais prestant au sein de l’Institut National des Sciences Agronomiques (ISABU) et qui a requis l’ anonymat, quand ces coléoptères du genre paederus sont écrasés sur la peau nue, ils libèrent une substance chimique dénommée ” pédérine”, un amide toxique qui peut causer des dermatites ” linéaires” ou des symptômes plus sévères si la victime en question ne se lave pas immédiatement la peau avec de l’eau et du savon.
Il a aussi ajouté que la pédérine présente sur les mains, les vêtements et la literie peut être transféré sur d’autres régions du corps (organes génitaux notamment) et y ainsi provoquer ces dermatites.
D’après cet entomologiste, les paederus se plaisent dans les milieux humides et les risques de contact entre les humains et ces insectes augmentent généralement après des averses, pendant la saison des pluies ou lors d’une année exceptionnellement humide.
Les avis sont partagés quant au meilleur traitement à administrer, a affirmé l’entomologiste burundais, qui recommande le traitement des lésions ad hoc comme des dermatites de contact irritants.
Burundi : Prison à vie pour sept accusés dans le massacre de Gatumba
mardi 31 janvier 2012/ par Marie /www.acturank.com
Au Burundi le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bujumbura a rendu son jugement vendredi dernier sur le massacre de Gatumba.
Sept prévenus ont été condamnés à la prison à perpétuité, d’autres à une peine de trois à cinq ans, tandis que cinq ont été acquittés. La société civile et la défense dénoncent une justice de deux poids, deux mesures.
RWANDA :
Rwanda: All Rwandans Can Now Sleep Easy – Impunity Is At an End
By Shyaka Kanuma, /allafrica.com/ Rwanda Focus (Kigali)/30 January 2012
The deportation of Leon Mugesera back to Rwanda by Canadian authorities early last week was a massive event, in Rwandan history, in more ways than one.
Here was a notorious propagandist of the Genocide finally brought back to face the people whose annihilation he vocally called for, the victims of his voluble demagoguery. But, equally importantly, when they brought Mugesera back, kicking and screaming, it could have signaled the one thing that will make Rwanda a “normal” country. Historians looking back to this event may mark it as the time when Rwandans realized noone will ever again massacre another person in this country and expect to get away scot free, and not only that, even be rewarded for the crime!
The day they brought Mugesera back to answer for his crimes is the day I will teach my child as the one when impunity ended in this country. In the future, whether a Tutsi is in power, or a Twa or a Hutu, no one will ever again dare imagine they can plan and carry out a full scale massacre of their neighbors, or perpetrate pogroms against those neighbors, eat their cows, rape their women. And afterwards everything is hunky-dory.
You may ask, what is so special about the Mugesera deportation; after all he is not the first genocide suspect to be deported back to Rwanda? What makes his arrival back any different from, say, that of Froduald Karamira (who India deported in 1996 and who was among the 22 people Rwanda executed forcrimes they committed during the Genocide, before the country banned the death penalty)?
The difference is that back then the people who perpetrated the Genocide only regarded the Karamira “misfortune” as a freak occurrence. They had their international friends spreading all kinds of lies and smears about the RPF and so not many nations were inclined to hand even the worst Genocidaires over to Rwanda. India was an aberration, an exception rather than the rule. All you had to do if you had participated in massacres was escape to France, or Italy, or any other European nation, or Canada and you would find groups of people you duped into believing everything you said, and you were all set. Or, better still, find professional cynics who repeated your lies and, for political reasons, spread the same lies, unceasingly.
One of the main lies they were propagating was that the RPF too was guilty of genocide, and the main weapon in this arsenal of lies was the canard that President (at the time vice president) Kagame was responsible for assassinating Habyarimana and therefore “triggering the genocide”.
One of these foreign journalists whom I talked to certainly did not imagine members of the Rwanda Police would behave with the professionalism they did.
Well, Kagame and his administration have all the time been saying the obvious – they could not have brought down Habyarimana’s plane, even if they had wanted to. For the reason that, in the first place they were not anywhere near the place where the individual(s) who fired the missiles were and, secondly, who deliberately makes a calculated attempt to take power by risking the lives of a million of his own people?, in any case, to rule over who at the end of it all?
But now a couple of independent French judges have exploded the eighteen year old canard, and the Mugeseras and others like him out there quaking with fear know the game is up. You can be certain other countries will be more willing to hand over more suspects as a result of the report, and as a result of the fact that no one will be torturing Mugesera, like his lawyers in Canada were alleging. One could sense the foreign journalists (among the members of the press gathered at Kanombe airport waiting for Mugesera’s arrival) were half expecting that Rwandan authorities would hustle the man off the plane and speed him away immediately – presumably to the torture chambers! – without so much as letting him stretch his legs.
One of these foreign journalists whom I talked to certainly did not imagine members of the Rwanda Police would behave with the professionalism they did, politely requesting the notorious Mugesera to hold out his hands to put the cuffs on them, walking him gently but firmly to a waiting luxury SUV; taking him to a room to have him briefed of his rights, and transporting him to custody with an extra vehicle in escort, as the suspect sat without a single one of the policemen giving him so much as the stink eye.
Hutus carried out pogroms against their Tutsi neighbors in 1959 and burnt their houses and killed many, and many Tutsis fled their homes to neighboring countries. Not a single perpetrator of those massacres was brought to book. The process repeated itself with even more intensity in 1962 and 63 and in the early seventies and it became accepted wisdom that a Hutu killing his Tutsi neighbor wasn’t something that brought consequences, only more rewards for the perpetrator. Kill a Tutsi, or make him flee and you will take over his property, rape his wife or daughters and eat his cow. That was how it worked. Even the Hutus who thought all this was wrong were scared to raise any protest. The best some of them could do was try to conceal their Tutsi friends or neighbors.
Things were like this up to the early 90s. In 94 however things changed. Horrible carnage was visited upon the country, but this time there would be consequences. This time the victim turned victor. The RPF won the war, and their would be cases for the perpetrators to answer to. It was something totally new, totally unexpected for the likes of Bagosora and Kambanda and Karamira and Mugesera, and others.
Their best option was to keep alive the lie that the RPF somehow too was implicated in genocide. But that lie is over, done with, finished.They will answer for their crimes. And I can now sleep easy, knowing that in the future whichever person, of whatever ethnicity is president, or in power, it won’t pose an existential threat to me, or my child.
World Bank Vice President commends Rwanda’s Growth
www.starafrica.com/ January 30, 2012
KIGALI, Rwanda, January 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The World Bank Vice…
KIGALI, Rwanda, January 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, Rachel Kyte has commended the Government of Rwanda’s vision and commitment for implementing successful growth-driving policies.
“Rwanda has been a great development success story over the last decade, now as Rwanda builds on that success, making the transition from aid to more investment, we stand ready to support this transformation” said Kyte.
She highlighted the need for the Rwanda Government to continue enhancing Foreign Direct Investment, facilitate public-private partnerships to maximize opportunities from existing growth sectors, and to focus public expenditure on the key bottlenecks for economic growth especially transport and energy. She emphasized that with infrastructure investments that are efficient, realistic, and sustainable, Rwanda will achieve its medium-term growth targets.
Kyte, who wrapped up her three -day visit to Rwanda yesterday, met with the Prime Minister and various senior government officials, representatives of the private sector and the donor community, and visited World Bank-funded projects.
On the field trip to Gatsibo District, the Vice President appreciated sustainable land management and agricultural intensification activities supported by the WB-financed Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation (LWH) and the third Rural Sector Support projects under the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition to the scale and replicability of the activities supported by these projects, the purposeful design to maximize environmental and socio-economic benefits was remarkable achievement.
In her dialogue with community members present, Kyte said: “Our job in the World Bank is to lend a hand –a hand that can lend you money and which can lend you technical support. However, what makes our job wonderful is when we all step back and watch you –the community–carry out this work and achieve such incredible and sustainable results”.
In Nyagatovu Village, Kyte joined residents in the nationwide community work known as Umuganda and assisted with the construction of a household vegetable garden and participated in the distribution of milk to children under the Government’s Milk for the children initiative.
She also visited the Government’s low-cost household electricity connection program which the Bank-financed Electricity Access Project intends to scale up.
Kyte has overall responsibilities for the World Bank Group’s global work in infrastructure, agriculture, environment, energy, climate change, urban development, and social development, among others. This is her second visit to Rwanda since 2008 when she was Vice President for Business Advisory services at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.
For more information on the World Bank please visit: www.worldbank.org
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Jailed Rwandan journalists in court appeals
AFP/Mon Jan 30 2012
Rwandan: A Rwandan editor and a reporter, serving jail terms of 17 and seven years for genocide denial and inciting civil unrest, launched an appeal Monday before the supreme court.
Agnes Uwimana Nkusi, the editor of the Umurabyo monthly, was convicted in February 2011 of defamation, causing divisions and denying Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, and given 17 years in jail.
Saidati Mukakibibi, the publication’s reporter, was found guilty of incitement to civil disobedience and handed seven years in prison.
“The judgment was kind of out-of-pace with the rest of the policies Rwanda is developing,” Nani Jansen of the London-based Media Legal Defense Initiative, who is part of the seven-member team representing Nkusi and Mukakibibi, said Monday.
“The country is claiming they want to promote freedom of press, have an open, democratic society but to do that you have to have a strong media,” Jansen said.
Prosecutors had asked for a 33-year sentence for Nkusi and 12 years for Mukakibibi.
The charges stem from various articles published last year criticising land reforms and the local grass-roots courts, known as gacaca, trying genocide suspects.
Lead defence counsel is London-based attorney John Jones and the legal team also includes lawyers from London-based freedom of speech group Article 19 and Brussels based Lawyers without Borders.
“The tide has turned and, from the point of view of foreign jurisdictions, Rwanda is now a place where you can have a fair trial,” Jones told AFP Monday.
“There is now confidence in Rwandan criminal justice. That’s why (it’s) all the more important that in this case the judgment is fair, just and proportionate.”
Rwanda: Rwf100 Million Military Medical Centre Opens
The New Times/By Maria Kaitesi/ 31 January 2012
Rwanda Military Hospital (RMH) yesterday launched its Integrated Centre for Voluntary Counselling and Testing, Antiretroviral Treatment, Prevention of Mother -to-Child Transmission, Anti Retrovirals and other infectious diseases, as well as a laboratory department.
The setting up of the whole facility cost Rwf 100 million while the equipment in the laboratory cost Rwf 300 million.
The laboratory includes equipment such as the Cobase 411 which tests infectious diseases, fertility hormones, cancer, heart diseases, hepatitis, brain tumors and other diseases. The machine produces results within 18 minutes.
Another is the Cobas c 311 which is used for clinical chemistry analysis. It tests the functioning of the liver, kidney and heart. It also checks blood sugars, lipids, glucose and fats among others. This produces results in 12 minutes.
The Minister of Defence James Kabarebe, who presided over the event, said Rwanda has developed a good partnership with the US government and the Department of Defence (DOD).
He added that the RDF is leading the fight against HIV/AIDS.
“The RDF is at the forefront in combating HIV/AIDS within the country by offering access to quality care with quality facilities,” he said.
Kabarebe expressed appreciation for the support the DOD had rendered to Rwanda Military Hospital over the years.
The Deputy Ambassador of the USA to Rwanda, Ms. Anne Casper, who gave her speech in Kinyarwanda, said she hopes the state-of-the-art laboratory would help fight HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in the country.
She added that Rwanda is the leader in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT).
The funding for the Voluntary Counseling, Testing (Antiretroviral treatment) and Laboratory premises came from PEPFAR through DOD and Drew Cares International.
Col. Dr. Ben Karenzi, the Director of RMH, said the hospital is focusing on referral activities to reshape the infrastructure to give it proper referral status.
“We are partnering with the US Department of Defence to set new strategic directions with specialty and technical capability to transform this hospital into an ultra-modern VIP facility,” Karenzi noted.
He added that the new facility and laboratory will help provide comprehensive care to patients with HIV/AIDS.
Why I frequent Uganda, explains Kagame
Publish Date: Jan 31, 2012/ www.newvision.co.ug
The Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, was in Kampala last week to receive an award during celebrations to mark NRM’s 26th anniversary. Paul Busharizi talked to him and below are the excerpts of the interview.
QUESTION: Given your history with this country, coming as a toddler, returning to Rwanda, the friction with Uganda and now improvement in relations, how does receiving these medals make you feel?
ANSWER: I was reading what some people were writing and they were wondering why and how I can come to Uganda three times in a period of six weeks. At the back of my mind I was thinking, I lived in Uganda for 30 years, what is wrong with coming here three times in six weeks?
Uganda for me and for many others in Rwanda and probably elsewhere is a second home. I grew up here and there are many Rwandans who were born here.
We spent decades of our lives here and there is more that people should be happy about and should be proud of instead of talking about a few negative things that happened here and there. The good things in my view are certainly more significant than anything else that could have happened.
Whatever negative things happened are regrettable and maybe we need to leave them in the past and move forward. So the medals were generously awarded with a feeling of gratitude and a deep sense of honour.
We are also saying maybe there is a lot more to be grateful about that we gained in the years we spent in Uganda than the contribution we were able to make. In my opinion, I think there was more we received than we really gave.
Today, we still stand challenged to make sure that things can only get better and this is what we are dedicated to do and this is what these moments and events remind us of.
The public perception is, whenever you, President Kagame of Rwanda and President Museveni meet, something is happening. What is happening?
I think there is good reason for anyone to imagine something is happening whenever the two of us meet. Indeed, we always meet to discuss about the two countries, bilateral relations and cooperation, regional issues and global issues that affect our two countries and the region. Currently it’s about the bilateral issues, how we can work together and how we can make the East African Community (EAC) a reality
I don’t think there is need to worry about our getting together. Instead people should be more positive about it.
Former President Thabo Mbeki was here last week and said the African Renaissance was stalling and because of our continent’s weakness other people were making our decisions for us. What is your view?
I agree with President Mbeki on the issues he raised, but that is only a small fraction of the story. We need to strengthen ourselves to be able to address many of our problems. The deeper part of the problem which has not been addressed is why do we fail yet in most cases we know what needs to be done. We have known this for decades.
One, African countries need to strengthen themselves internally. Whether it is an issue of democratic governance, the economy, investing in developing capacities in our people through education and imparting skills in our people to enable them fit in the labour market. We should be able to achieve this really given the resources at our disposal.
The other issue is regional integration. If our countries make progress and then we come together, we even become stronger. But I am afraid Africa remains fragmented and the would-be fragments, the individual nation states are also wobbly, they are just not holding.
Leadership problems maybe?
Leadership may not be the only cause of the problem but it is definitely central to the problem. There is the sense that everybody in the region does not share the same urgency for regional integration.
Isn’t there a risk of you becoming a John Baptist, pointing to the promised land and never getting there?
There is always such a danger and I think we need to work with that in mind. We really need to walk the talk and fulfill some of these promises. It is not bad to have big dreams, you dream and then you start working towards that. You make sure that you do not waste any time or resource.
You cannot say that since the other country is not doing it, so I will not do my part. Try to do your part and maybe someone else will do their part. We also have many examples to learn from, look at other parts of the world that are moving.
Sometimes it is amazing, we sit here and lament and some of our people are the ones going to those places that are developed and doing for them the very things that those countries are known for.
French Judge Mark Trevidic’s report came out recently exonerating the RPF from shooting Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane, an event that triggered the genocide. Is that a relief?
This report or incident or whatever you may call it has a lot of falsehoods around it. First is the distortion of history of genocide itself. Some people even say the genocide happened because plane was shot down. This is not true, it is false.
Because as we were just discussing a while ago, even talking about my own history, how I became a refugee here in Uganda in 1960 and hundreds of thousands of others in other parts of this region and many thousands losing their lives.
That was 1960 and it started in 1959 in fact, through all these years. Genocide had taken place in Rwanda at different times at different scales, this was the extreme.
Secondly, there have been many reports in fact exonerating RPF and probably others because there has been a list of people, groups accused of bringing down the plane of Habyarimana in 1994.
There have been so far three or four reports resulting from independent investigations, and this last one by the French judge was one in a series of the four. Maybe because this has come from France by a French judge maybe it’s going to be believed but there was another one by Judge Mutsinzi with a very competent investigative team.
He is a senior Judge in Rwanda, he has worked for COMESA and the OAU and he and his team almost gave the same conclusion. Lines of investigation and facts were established but were not valued because they were saying this African, this Rwandese.
Now the recent report, however, I will say really did we have to wait until a French judge says so in order to believe it, happily he has said so.
For us in Rwanda, we need to focus on very important issues that affect millions of Rwandans and our future and stop being hostage to one case that is fabricated and played around with. In as far as that point is concerned, I think we are happy that report has come out exonerating RPF. But it is like nothing will come out of that until somebody comes to judge and give a blessing and say this African can walk free; it is really pathetic.
Can the Rwandese model of reconciliation be replicated in Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and other areas that have had conflict?
For us we have really had to deal with many odds, very strange odds some times. We have even experimented on a number of things. We have tried things out that we had never tried before.
At least we have made sure that one of the options we have is not to just sit and say we can afford to do nothing. If we get it wrong, we try something else but we have to do something. Really we have tried to bring the country that had been back together, the country completely torn apart, and the message has been clear.
We have been talking to each other, looked at each other in the eyes and questioned each other and questioned ourselves and said what is it that made all this happen or what is it that anybody benefited from this kind of situation, and then we come out with another fight altogether trying to get something positive out of our differences.
We have taken this matter to the grassroots level and we have even applied in most cases our traditional means of justice, of reconciliation and in everything, even in the social and economic development we are trying the old traditional ways but modernising them.
I am sure you have heard of the Gacaca and in the rural areas there is something called obudehe which means bringing people’s efforts together. These are things that are decades old in our culture, tradition but we have put some modern touch to them with very good results. Since they have worked for us, some of these methods should be able to work for us.
The most important thing, and this cuts across everything we do: how is the ordinary person involved? How is he being affected by it? How is he associated with it, making them feel they are part of the process and are indispensable?
However, things will not just happen. At some level, leadership will have to be there to try and make things happen. With that in place, we shall ensure that what works is consolidated and not abandoned and then we move on.
Somalia would be the same case, they just need some leaders from clans or groups to get together and say, look, what are we gaining from this? And it will never be done by somebody else from outside, the outside only helps they never substitute the internal mechanism.
Rwanda: U.S., Nation Plot to Rout Weakened FDLR
By James Karuhanga/The New Times/31 January 2012
Strategies to wipe out remnants of a weakened FDLR militia now scattered and on the run towards the northern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were part of discussions between the visiting new US envoy to the Great Lakes, Barrie Walkley, and Defence Minister, Gen. James Kabarebe, yesterday.
Ambassador Walkley, who is making his maiden trip to the region, noted that cross-border and regional issues, including Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), are his responsibility.
“The ambassadors for individual countries in this region will take care of the bilateral relations. I will take care and concern myself with the regional applications. Such issues as FDLR, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), conflict minerals, security sector reform, the problems with armed groups in the region and violence against women. Issues of that sort will be my responsibility,” Ambassador Walkley told reporters after the meeting.
Military and Defense Spokesperson, Col. Joseph Nzabamwita, who also attended the closed session further stated: “The envoy was briefed on the Joint Military Operations conducted by FARDC and RDF and how the intelligence-led operations dealt a severe blow to FDLR, resulting into deaths of their senior commanders and are now scattered fleeing to the northern part of the Kivu Province.”
“This, together with other Demobilisation and Repatriation strategies, has led to a surge in repatriations to Rwanda by FDLR fighters”.
Col. Nzabamwita was not categorical whether the new development – FDLR’s flight northwards – could lead to a possible alliance between FDLR and elements of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) militia based further in the north of the DRC, but it is clear that such an alliance would cause more mayhem.
Amb. Walkley told reporters that: “We had a chance to discuss many issues that are part of my portfolio. We spent time discussing the armed groups particularly the threat constantly caused by the FDLR”.
He noted that in the last three months alone, around 400 FDLR combatants returned home.
“We are talking of military and non military civil activities against them. This is combined by a joint military punch that has scattered the FDLR who are now on the run. They are leaving their areas of operation in Walikale, in North Kivu, and are going further north to Lubelo and Beni areas,” the army spokesman noted.
Early this month, the FDLR Chief of Staff, Gen. Leodomir Mugaragu, was killed along with over 20 of his commanders.
The LRA, on the other hand, continues to commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the DRC, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security.
Past and present joint operations mounted by the Rwandan and Congolese armies have weakened the FDLR and the US government is currently collaborating with regional armies to wipe out the LRA.
Just last year, US President Barack Obama authorised the deployment, to Uganda, of about 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces flush out the LRA from the battlefield.
The US troops are being deployed in Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the DRC to further U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and contribute towards counter-LRA efforts in the wider region.
The USA has in the past supported regional countries in their military strategy against FDLR and other negative armed groups, principally through the Joint Intelligence Fusion Cell and the Tripartite Plus Mechanism.
RDC CONGO:
RDC: l’appel à la grève de Tshisekedi suivi dans ses fiefs, pas à Kinshasa
(AFP) /31012012
KINSHASA — L’appel à la grève générale lancé en RD Congo à partir de lundi “et jusqu’à nouvel ordre” par l’opposant Etienne Tshisekedi, autoproclamé “président élu”, a été bien suivi dans ses fiefs de Mbuji-Mayi et Kananga (centre) mais pas dans la capitale Kinshasa.
A Mbuji-Mayi, capitale de la province du Kasaï-Oriental, la grève a été “bien suivie. Des commerces sont restés fermés, il n’y avait pas une circulation intense comme d’habitude, beaucoup de piétons marchaient le long des routes”, a déclaré à l’AFP le président de la Société civile (regroupement d’ONG) de la province, Jean-Alexis Kasuasua.
“Le gouverneur (de la province) est sorti pour négocier avec des propriétaires de commerces pour qu’ils ouvrent mais ils n’ont pas pu travailler parce que leurs employés ne sont pas venus”, a-t-il ajouté, précisant que le même problème s’est posé au niveau d’établissements publics et privés.
La population a “vaqué paisiblement à ses occupations”, a pour sa part affirmé à l’AFP un collaborateur du gouverneur.
A Kananga, capitale du Kasaï-Occidental voisin, plusieurs écoles et établissements publics sont restés fermés, et “dans l’après-midi, les commerçants ont commencé à sortir et essayer de vendre un petit rien pour subvenir aux besoins de la famille”, a indiqué la Société civile du Congo (Socico).
En revanche, à Kinshasa, les transports ont fonctionné et les commerces étaient ouverts comme un lundi habituel, ont constaté des journalistes de l’AFP.
“Si nous faisons la grève, qu’allons-nous manger ? Le Congolais mange au jour le jour, faire une grève c’est nous tuer”, a expliqué à l’AFP Marie, une vendeuse d’oignons dans un quartier de la capitale.
Quant à Robert, un fonctionnaire, comme d’autres Kinois il n’avait pas entendu parler de l’appel à la grève. Il l’a appris en arrivant au travail, en voyant que “certains bureaux étaient restés fermés”.
Vendredi, Etienne Tshisekedi, âgé de 79 ans, qui s’est autoproclamé “président élu” après avoir rejeté les résultats de la présidentielle du 28 novembre 2011 qui le classait deuxième derrière le chef de l’Etat sortant et officiellement réélu Joseph Kabila, avait appelé à partir de lundi à une “grève générale sur l’ensemble du territoire national et jusqu’à nouvel ordre”.
A Mbuji-Mayi l’opposant a obtenu plus de 97% des suffrages, et à Kananga près de 96%, selon les résultats officiels de la Commission électorale nationale indépendante (Céni).
Il a toujours dénoncé de nombreuses irrégularités lors des scrutins présidentiel et législatif, qui se sont tenus le même jour. Des missions d’observations nationales et internationales de même que l’église catholique congolaise les ont également constatées.
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