Communiques – en

With the objective of supporting a democratic, transparent and just electoral process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and therefore avoid a more than probable Ivory Coast (bis) scenario in Kinshasa and DR Congo in general, the Blue Movement presided by the Rev. Jean-Paul Moka is calling on the United Nations, United States of America, China, The European Union (Belgium, UK, Germany, France, Russia and Portugal in particular ) and the G8 countries to demand on the Congolese Supreme court and the National Electoral Commission to address the specific issued raised in this communiqué:

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Kinshasa, 16 September 2011 – Three cargo planes transporting three hundred tons of electoral material landed at N’Djili International Airport, in the Congolese capital, on 14 and 15 September. This first batch of electoral material from China comprised electoral kits intended for elections that are expected to start later this year.

Brussels, September 16th 2011,

EurAc, the network of European NGOs involved in advocacy on Central African issues has watched with great concern how the security situation has worsened and violence has increased in the present pre-electoral period in the DRC. This has been very noticeable in the sequence of events on Monday 5 September and Tuesday 6 September 2011.

The network of European NGOs for advocacy on Central Africa (EurAc) and its member NGOs are greatly concerned by recent reports that publicly-owned mining resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have seemingly being sold off to private interests in secret, without a competitive tendering process and at prices far lower than their market value. We call on European donors and the World Bank to take a far more active role in monitoring these activities, and to push for the full implementation of the Economic Governance Matrix that the DRC government agreed with the World Bank in March 2011.

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LEUVEN – The new interuniversity partnership between the Catholic University of Bakavu (UCB) and KULeuven officially launches on September 1.

New York — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate allegations of threats made earlier this month by a member of parliament against a journalist. The politician's threats were caught on an audio recording of the phone call, which was widely posted on the Internet.

People throughout the globe have responded enthusiastically to the release of Crisis in the Congo:Uncovering The Truth. Nearly 70,000 people have viewed the film on YouTube, 1,000 people have downloaded the film to screen or watch, screenings have been held in Nairobi, Johannesburg, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, DC and numerous other cities with more scheduled for the rest of the year.