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Nominations within the Congolese armed forces and the electoral registration operations
Press Review - 8 July 2005
Nominations within the Congolese armed forces and the electoral registration operations are the main focus of today's local papers.
Nominations within the Congolese armed forces and the electoral registration operations are the main focus of today's local papers.
The headlines in La Référence Plus read: 'Important nominations within the FARDC.' 'The strong man of Bukavu, General Félix Mbuja Mabe reassigned from the 10th military region to the Kitona military basis.' La Référence Plus further reports, 'components and entities have been given 72-hour grace period to submit their proposals to President Kabila in order to enable him to make nominations in the Territorial Administration's small entities and the Public Firms.'
L'Observateur, for its part, reports, 'the grace period will enable the Ministers in charge of Interior and Public Firms to harmonise the different lists transmitted by components and entities,' adding that 'the nominations within the army is in keeping with the FARDC restructuring promised by Major General Joseph Kabila.'
L'Avenir says, 'the changes made in the army is a result of Government self-assessment,' and quotes the Minister of Information as declaring, 'President Joseph Kabila promised a number of nominations within the next ten days.'
Under the headline, 'Joseph Kabila has reorganised the army command,' Le Palmarès points out, 'The whole of Kinshasa was expecting nominations in diplomacy and security,' and notes, 'General Kisempia has been retained as FARDC chief of staff.'
With respect to the registrations of voters, L'Avenir reports, 'the number of voters registered in Kinshasa has topped 1million.' The paper recalls, 'Transition Institutions were not toppled as planned on 30 June,' the paper reports, indicating, 'Members of key Opposition political parties have taken the lead over their leaders in requesting that the current political battle be replaced by a true battle for the elections.'
Le Phare, in turn, refers to 'the already existing calendar.' 'CEI spread the registration operation over a period of 6 weeks... but according to analysts the calendar may not be respected due to slow pace of operations and the large number of the people to be registered, at least 3 millions,' the paper writes. Le Phare further reports, 'the previous calendar issued by CEI in June 2005 was to defuse the 30 June 2005 Opposition's bomb.'
With respect to the DRC political transition, Le Potentiel reports 'a donors' meeting in Brussels on 11 June 2005.' The paper predicts, 'the donors will consider the best means and ways to make further contributions for the rest of the process.'
L'Observateur, for its part, reports, 'the grace period will enable the Ministers in charge of Interior and Public Firms to harmonise the different lists transmitted by components and entities,' adding that 'the nominations within the army is in keeping with the FARDC restructuring promised by Major General Joseph Kabila.'
L'Avenir says, 'the changes made in the army is a result of Government self-assessment,' and quotes the Minister of Information as declaring, 'President Joseph Kabila promised a number of nominations within the next ten days.'
Under the headline, 'Joseph Kabila has reorganised the army command,' Le Palmarès points out, 'The whole of Kinshasa was expecting nominations in diplomacy and security,' and notes, 'General Kisempia has been retained as FARDC chief of staff.'
With respect to the registrations of voters, L'Avenir reports, 'the number of voters registered in Kinshasa has topped 1million.' The paper recalls, 'Transition Institutions were not toppled as planned on 30 June,' the paper reports, indicating, 'Members of key Opposition political parties have taken the lead over their leaders in requesting that the current political battle be replaced by a true battle for the elections.'
Le Phare, in turn, refers to 'the already existing calendar.' 'CEI spread the registration operation over a period of 6 weeks... but according to analysts the calendar may not be respected due to slow pace of operations and the large number of the people to be registered, at least 3 millions,' the paper writes. Le Phare further reports, 'the previous calendar issued by CEI in June 2005 was to defuse the 30 June 2005 Opposition's bomb.'
With respect to the DRC political transition, Le Potentiel reports 'a donors' meeting in Brussels on 11 June 2005.' The paper predicts, 'the donors will consider the best means and ways to make further contributions for the rest of the process.'
