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Press Review 8 June 2005
The launching of a training session for the staff who will be in charge of voters' identification and census and debate over the change of government scheduled for 30 June make the headlines of today's local press.
'The Independent Electoral Commission known as CEI has officially launched a three-day training session for census takers,' La Référence Plus reports, adding that 'the training session was scheduled for 7-9 June 2005,' the paper adds.
According to La Tempête des Tropiques, '900 people are part of the first group to undergo this training. Two other groups will be respectively trained on June 9 and June 12,' L'Avenir writes, indicating, 'Altogether there will be 4 sessions.' CEI will have therefore trained '3600 census takers for 1143 identification and registration centres' for Kinshasa alone.
The headlines in La Tempête des Tropiques read: 'Elections: Voters' identification and registration pose an overlapping problem likely to endanger the electoral process.'
Le Potentiel wonders whether the political parties would be able to embark on the process. The paper says, 'political parties are behaving as if the deadline for the electoral process could last for years.'
In the meantime, political debates focus on the 30 June. L'Avenir refers to 'Government's assessment' and writes, 'incompetent ministers in a state of uncertainty.' The paper says, 'Government's assessment due to start on Thursday 9 June' comes as a surprise for 'the ministers who thought they would escape their components or entities' assessment by using all sorts of schemes.'
La Référence Plus publishes Vital Kamerhe, Secretary General of the PPRD led by President Kabila interview suggesting that 'components give some ministerial posts to UDPS,' on the grounds that 'a new impulse must be impacted to Government action,' Mr. Kamerhe declares to La Référence Plus.
La Tempête des Tropiques reports the position of a 'former students' fellowship' requiring 'a political alternance on 30 June' putting forward the names of personalities likely to run the institutions.
This morning's press also comments on the reaction of FDLR leader after his troops attacked FARDC position. 'FDLR accuses the kinyarwanda-speaking troops of FARDC,' La Tempête des Tropiques says. For the paper, 'the rebel chief has denounced a segment of the regular army, notably the kinyarwanda-speaking who received orders from Kigali to prevent FDLR combatants from returning to Rwanda.'
Le Potentiel quotes FDLR leader as certifying, 'Some FARDC troops are working in collaboration with Kigali and have no interest in seeing the FDLR-initiated process materializing.'
Moreover, Le Palmarès publishes an interview by Honoré Ngbanda, former special adviser to Mobutu who declared, 'I have evidence that Kinshasa is infiltrated by Rwandan commando whose mission is to eliminate the Congolese elite on 30 June, and pin the responsibility on the demonstrators. Mobutu's Chief Intelligence Officer relates this to the rumour on the purchase of machetes by Congolese people. 'It is Rwandans who are used to such practices of killing one another with machetes,' he says, urging Kinshasa's residents 'to be vigilant' for the 'Trojan horse is already in town,' Le Palmarès writes.
According to La Tempête des Tropiques, '900 people are part of the first group to undergo this training. Two other groups will be respectively trained on June 9 and June 12,' L'Avenir writes, indicating, 'Altogether there will be 4 sessions.' CEI will have therefore trained '3600 census takers for 1143 identification and registration centres' for Kinshasa alone.
The headlines in La Tempête des Tropiques read: 'Elections: Voters' identification and registration pose an overlapping problem likely to endanger the electoral process.'
Le Potentiel wonders whether the political parties would be able to embark on the process. The paper says, 'political parties are behaving as if the deadline for the electoral process could last for years.'
In the meantime, political debates focus on the 30 June. L'Avenir refers to 'Government's assessment' and writes, 'incompetent ministers in a state of uncertainty.' The paper says, 'Government's assessment due to start on Thursday 9 June' comes as a surprise for 'the ministers who thought they would escape their components or entities' assessment by using all sorts of schemes.'
La Référence Plus publishes Vital Kamerhe, Secretary General of the PPRD led by President Kabila interview suggesting that 'components give some ministerial posts to UDPS,' on the grounds that 'a new impulse must be impacted to Government action,' Mr. Kamerhe declares to La Référence Plus.
La Tempête des Tropiques reports the position of a 'former students' fellowship' requiring 'a political alternance on 30 June' putting forward the names of personalities likely to run the institutions.
This morning's press also comments on the reaction of FDLR leader after his troops attacked FARDC position. 'FDLR accuses the kinyarwanda-speaking troops of FARDC,' La Tempête des Tropiques says. For the paper, 'the rebel chief has denounced a segment of the regular army, notably the kinyarwanda-speaking who received orders from Kigali to prevent FDLR combatants from returning to Rwanda.'
Le Potentiel quotes FDLR leader as certifying, 'Some FARDC troops are working in collaboration with Kigali and have no interest in seeing the FDLR-initiated process materializing.'
Moreover, Le Palmarès publishes an interview by Honoré Ngbanda, former special adviser to Mobutu who declared, 'I have evidence that Kinshasa is infiltrated by Rwandan commando whose mission is to eliminate the Congolese elite on 30 June, and pin the responsibility on the demonstrators. Mobutu's Chief Intelligence Officer relates this to the rumour on the purchase of machetes by Congolese people. 'It is Rwandans who are used to such practices of killing one another with machetes,' he says, urging Kinshasa's residents 'to be vigilant' for the 'Trojan horse is already in town,' Le Palmarès writes.
