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Press Review of 23 August 2005
Today's local press goes back over DRC ongoing electoral process.
The headlines in Le Potential read: 'Major Obstacles in CEI's way to organise elections in 2006: logistic nightmare and insecurity in the provinces continue fuelling debates.' The pro-opposition paper warns, 'Three scenarios should be envisaged for the DRC case,' should 'the CEI declare itself unable to take the Congolese people to the elections on 30 June 2006.' The three scenarios are as follows: '1. Government Coordinator or Prime Minister to be named; 2. Co-Administration similar to that of Kosovo to be put in place with a mandate to organise the elections in a relatively short period of time, and 3. Unforeseen imponderables since DRC is not safe from a possible political boomerang.'
L'Observateur (close to PPRD) reports, 'One death and several injured,' in two voter identification and registration centres attacked by militiamen in Bule, district of Djugu in Ituri. Le Palmarès, pro-political opposition, refers to the attackers as 'UPC militiamen,' adding, 'The militiamen exchanged fire with loyalist troops.' La Tempête des Tropiques, for its part, says, 'Father Malu Malu keeps increasing his setbacks,' alluding to 'Yesterday's troubles in Ituri,' and the threats hanging on 'Katanga and Kasaï oriental provinces.' Unfortunately, 'Mr. William Swing and his colleagues minimise the threat by giving their moral support to Father Malu Malu's activities,' notes Le Potentiel. Similar analysis is made by La Tempête des Tropiques, which estimates, 'CIAT has set itself up as a genuine firebrand for the DRC peace mechanism. Instead of standing guarantor for a successful implementation of the All-inclusive Agreement, it is rather encouraging a systematic violation.'
'3,200 troops merged in Mushaki presented in Goma,' informs L'Observateur, adding, 'the 4th brigade will be deployed in Ituri and Kivu.' La Référence Plus believes, 'The 3,200 FARDC integrated troops (were trained) to fight the Ituri militiamen.' In an editorial entitled 'Army, a challenge for successful elections,' L'Observateur estimates, 'FARDC should, in the long run, become an educative force to reshape Congolese mentalities, by reconciling them with the existence of the army without which security will never be restored.' However, 'questions relating to the wage, ration and prise en charge of FARDC troops and their dependents must be addressed by the authorities as a matter of utmost urgency,' highlights the editorialist, indicating, 'Our combatants have become kind of real republican vigilante.'
L'Observateur (close to PPRD) reports, 'One death and several injured,' in two voter identification and registration centres attacked by militiamen in Bule, district of Djugu in Ituri. Le Palmarès, pro-political opposition, refers to the attackers as 'UPC militiamen,' adding, 'The militiamen exchanged fire with loyalist troops.' La Tempête des Tropiques, for its part, says, 'Father Malu Malu keeps increasing his setbacks,' alluding to 'Yesterday's troubles in Ituri,' and the threats hanging on 'Katanga and Kasaï oriental provinces.' Unfortunately, 'Mr. William Swing and his colleagues minimise the threat by giving their moral support to Father Malu Malu's activities,' notes Le Potentiel. Similar analysis is made by La Tempête des Tropiques, which estimates, 'CIAT has set itself up as a genuine firebrand for the DRC peace mechanism. Instead of standing guarantor for a successful implementation of the All-inclusive Agreement, it is rather encouraging a systematic violation.'
'3,200 troops merged in Mushaki presented in Goma,' informs L'Observateur, adding, 'the 4th brigade will be deployed in Ituri and Kivu.' La Référence Plus believes, 'The 3,200 FARDC integrated troops (were trained) to fight the Ituri militiamen.' In an editorial entitled 'Army, a challenge for successful elections,' L'Observateur estimates, 'FARDC should, in the long run, become an educative force to reshape Congolese mentalities, by reconciling them with the existence of the army without which security will never be restored.' However, 'questions relating to the wage, ration and prise en charge of FARDC troops and their dependents must be addressed by the authorities as a matter of utmost urgency,' highlights the editorialist, indicating, 'Our combatants have become kind of real republican vigilante.'
