RDC: CENCO lettre du CENI – “Objet: Accuse du reception” (05.01.2019)

RDC: FDC – Point de Presse – “Le FCC garde tojours sa serenite” (04.01.2019)

RDC: CENI Lettre du CENCO – “Concerne: Prostestation de la CENI contre la proclamation illegal des tendances et resultats des elections par des personnes et organes legalement imcompetents pour ce faire” (04.01.2019)

RDC: Communique – Harcelement Politique et Menaces de Mort a l’Endroit de son Excellence Matata Ponyo Mapon (03.01.2019)

RDC: Justice et Paix Congo/CENCO – Observation des Elections Presidentielle, Legislatives Nationales et Provinciales du 30 Decembre 2018 en Republique Democratique du Congo – Declaration Preliminaire (03.01.2019)

RDC: RECOMEL – Communique de Presse (03.01.2019)

DRC: Recent developments from Lambert Mende and CENI doesn’t make the Elections more credible!

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”St. Francis Of Assisi

When the tallying is done in darkness, when the government are telling the world. Don’t tell us how to do this, but the same government asked again and again for funding to this. They are deliberate in their actions. That Minister Lambert Mende is attacking the foreign media, isn’t strengthening the belief of just count of the ballots. As the days after the polls. As CENI pushed the counting from 2nd January to 6th January for the Preliminary Results. Clearly, a message that the Electoral Commission is busy cooking.

They are over the stove cooking the numbers, so they seem real. As the Internet is blocked for days now and the SMS Services too. They are clearly doing this to stop the transparency of the counting operation. CENI doesn’t want to be questioned and neither the ones in-charge in Kinshasa.

We know something is weird too, when one of the running, the supposed heir, Emmanuel Shadri is promising to not take the Presidential Palace, but rule from the Prime Minister’s Mansion in Kinshasa. If that isn’t a weird, nothing is. As AU EOM and SADC EOM is saying it was smooth. So, they have sort of validated the process. In a way, that the International Community needs. Therefore, recent events shows the dire need for change.

The polls, the ballots are just a show, a mere facade, as the reality is happen afterwards. As CENI is stalling the process. Just like Kabila postponement of it since his term ended. They have pushed and now trying to seal the fate, so that anyone will not question the truth. Mende is busy shielding his associates. CENI is busy finding ways to look credible. While we all know their deal. They are there to serve the heir of Kabila, the man who will continue and let Kabila work in the murky shadow. That is why the President of today, can live in the Presidential Palace, also tomorrow.

We can wonder, if the FCC or the Kabila regiment are thinking of how this looks like. If they think they look smart. They don’t, if they think they can count in darkness and in silence. They are wrong. If they first want to be totally sovereign in this matter, the CENI shouldn’t need foreign funding for their operations, secondly the government shouldn’t need direct donor aid. However, it does and therefore, the state should be less reckless. They should be more diplomatic and think of their actions.

This makes them looks small. This makes them look stupid. CENI, Kabila, Shadari, Mende and all of the people in the inner-circle, are not moving wisely. They are instead, making smoke and we are just awaiting fire. Peace.

RDC: SADC Preliminary Statement to the 2018 Presidential, Legislative and Provincial Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (02.01.2019)

RDC: Lambert Mende – Communication a l’Attention de la Presse International, Kinshasa Janvier 2019 (03.01.2019)

RDC: Mission d’Observation Electorale de l’Union Africaine pour les Elections Generales du 30 Decembre 2018 en Republique Democratique du Congo – Declaration Preliminaire (02.01.2019)