





United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed for all parties to “refrain from violence” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following the announcement of the provisional results of the long-delayed presidential election.
NEW YORK, United States of America, January 11, 2019 – The vote – initially scheduled to take place two years ago – if upheld, marks the vast central African nation’s first democratic transfer of power since independence nearly 60 years ago.
According to news reports, the preliminary results announced by the independent electoral commission, known by its French acronym, CENI, which declared opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi the winner of the 30 December election, do not tally with the unofficial figures gathered by independent poll observers.
According to CENI, Mr. Tshisekedi took more than 38 per cent of the votes cast, ahead of rival presidential hopefuls Martin Fayalu and ruling party candidate, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary. Mr. Fayalu immediately rejected the result, said agency reports.
“The Secretary-General calls on all stakeholders to refrain from violence and to channel any eventual electoral disputes through the established institutional mechanisms in line with the DRC’s Constitution and relevant electoral laws,” said Mr. Guterres in a statement released by his Spokesperson, late on Wednesday evening in New York.
In a direct call to CENI, the Constitutional Court, the Government, political parties and civil society, Mr Guterres urged them to “each live up to their responsibility in preserving stability and upholding democratic practices” in the DRC.
And as the country prepares to enter a new era without President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since the previous incumbent, his father, was assassinated in 2001, the Secretary-General reiterated “the continued support and commitment” of the United Nations.
Together with regional actors and international partners, the UN will work “for the consolidation of peace, stability and development” in the DRC, Mr Guterres insisted, his comments coming amid an acute humanitarian crisis made worse by sporadic conflict involving dozens of armed groups in parts of the huge country.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 12.8 million people are now food insecure in DRC, including 4.3 million malnourished children, of whom 1.3 million face severe malnutrition this year.
This is despite the country’s huge natural riches, seen as a source of illicit wealth by armed groups who continue to hamper access for aid teams, which are also tackling endemic cholera – which threatens two million people – combined with a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North Kivu and Ituri.





These protests are continuing to ravish against the dictatorship of President Omar Al-Bashir. Yesterday, was yet another day of massive protests against him. Where he there are reports of shots at an Educational Hospital in Omdurman. That is what this regime does to its own.
That is why its brave to go on the streets, to scream and chant against the President. To show the National Congress Party (NCP) and President, that its enough. They are brave as the people are shot and dying. As people are arrested, taken away and family members has gone missing. That is why they are brave, they are standing up and being resilient against a man, who has no trouble finishing them off. Using militias, using Janjaweed (Rapid Security Force) or National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). All in the game of silencing and intimidating the public. Which it has done, again and again over the last few weeks. Since the start of the protest mid-December 2018.
The President should be afraid, should start to get anxious, as the public dismay isn’t stopping and their ability to gather isn’t dwindling, but instead growing. They don’t respect him or his orders. The public are not content with his management and his actions as their representative, as their leader. They are tired and ready for someone representing them. That is why they continue to settle the score in the streets.
That is the continued bravery, the ability to counter and stand up for their rights. The Sudanese people should be proud, what they are mustering and showing the whole world. That they are not picking arms, but using civic force to show the President who has the real power. The men with arms, with the guns has the ability to make people hurt and stop. But they have not the power to settle an idea, that is already established within the people. If they could, then this would have been settled. However, its not, because of the idea and the bravery of the public. Who in the midst of the worst intimidation, the worst harassment, the bickering sinister acts of the authorities. Are still in the streets chanting against them.
The Schools and Universities are now closed. The Internet is either blocked or slow, the Social Media sites is blocked. The amount of dead has rise already to over 40 and who knows what is the real number of detained people, but that is rising to. That is the answer from the government after weeks of protest. Still, people are gathering, not giving way or in to the regime. They are not accepting the mere fact of continuing, where it left off.
There also being put in place emergency laws and curfews around the Republic. Surely as an effort to contain the protests. But the mere size of the protests yesterday. Shows that these measures doesn’t mean to much. Even as he unverified results of it, was another 3 dead. Which is three to many. None should die over a power-struggle, but then again Al-Bashir has been collecting skulls since taking power.
Its been since 1989, the man has ruled for 30 year non-stop. The public is enough of the bloodshed and misuse of power, enough of the corruption and the rot within the state. It is time for change and proper representation in the chambers of power.
But, for now, before that happens. Salute to the brave men and woman, who are on the front-line and fighting the blood-thirsty President. The man that has embodied the vision of single ruler without any question. The man who has used militias and used the state as private enterprise. Is now under fire, by ordinary men and woman, by people who has everything to loose by challenging him. Still, they continue. That is bravery without no questions.
When they are chanting in the streets, as the tear-gas, the live-bullets and the armed guards or soldiers popping up. They are still there, standing or walking towards the destination, towards the hopeful future where this ends. Where the Presidency and Reign ends. That is where they are walking towards. In the midst of the all the tragedies, they are continuing and pushing with hope for change. That is what is brave.
All of the people, who has stood there and done this over the three last weeks are brave, the courage and the strength to continue. Is admirable and shows commitment to the cause. I salute you. You deserve it. Your bravery should not be forgotten, neither should we forget the ones who lost their lives for the cause. The ones that is healing and the ones in prison. You all are heroes fighting the oppression and the dictatorship. You deserve credit and words cannot express properly, as the praise will be insignificant to the cost you already carry for standing their and being their in midst of the fight against the dictator. Peace.


10th January 2019, Oslo
Dear, His Excellency Felix Tshisekedi!
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.” – Lu Xun
I am writing you today as the Presidential Candidate of the coalition known as Common Front for Congo (CACH), which is the two party coalition Congolese Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) and Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC). The importance of that the political coordination with UNC Vital Kamerhe. We have seen that and seen how it has gone in the recent months. That is why I write to you, with haste, as it is needed at this point and time.
Honourable Sir, you have a choice, you can live on the lie, you can enjoy the perks, the position and the role as Head of State. You can do the hard one, accept it is wrong and challenge the results of the provincial announced results of Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) on the 9th January 2019. As the first results of the Presidential Elections of the 30th December 2018, which have made you the winner of it.
I know it is a lot to ask, as there are two other monitoring bodies, local ones with local observers, that has challenged these results, which makes you a winner. This being Conférence Nationale Épiscopale du Congo (CENCO) and Synergie des Missions d’Observation Citoyenne des Elections (SYMOCEL). As they have other results and another candidate than you as their winner, by their collected samples of the election.
So, as we know this lie. You know this lie and you are living on the lie. Will you able to live with the lie, is the raving power and the opportunity to be the Big-Man so enticing? That you will live on it and breathe it? That you will be accepted being remembered for trading the ballots for power.
Now, we are seeing the real you, the man who made a deal with FCC, the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) to ensure the FCC-UDPS-UNC will be a weak coalition. It will be manoeuvred and controlled, the Tshisekedi Presidency will be a Toy Story of the FCC-PPRD. A puppet of the patronage of the Joseph Kabila as accepted in the deals behind close doors.
Is this what you will be remembered for Tshisekedi. Not winning and a peaceful transition. You will be remembered for being part of a heist. You will be remembered for stealing an election as part of a deal made between closed doors. Is that what your legacy is worth? Is that what power is worth for you?
Because, the republic should be more valuable, the 3rd Republic should be the one want to preserve and ensure as a man who runs for Presidency. Not just seeking power for power sake. That is what it seems.
Hope you can manage to live with lie, as the lie will be with you and your to carry. Because you accepted it and took it. You can endure it, but that will not change it. The truth is still there and will be known. You will never have the legitimacy or the trust of the whole public. As you were never intended to be this.
You were the supposed lucky loser, the second place, but it was better to swallow the lie. It was better to take the hot-seat and be the Big-Man.
Hope it is worth it though. May your soul live it.
Best Regards
Writer of Minbane


