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Congo veteran Sassou Nguesso looks to extend rule in election news24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from news24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso will face seven challengers in a March 21 election, the interior ministry said Tuesday, though the main opposition has said it plans to boycott the vote. Sassou Nguesso, who has ruled for 36 years in total, will notably face Mathias Dzon, a 73-year-old former finance minister, and Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas, 60. Kolelas, whose father Bernard was briefly Congo s prime minister in 1997 during the country s civil war, was runner-up to Sassou Nguesso in 2016. The candidates names will now be sent to the constitutional court for validation, said Seraphin Ondele, interior ministry chief of staff. While Kolelas is backed by his own political party, the Union of Humanist Democrats (UDH), the country s largest opposition group, the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS), has already said it will boycott the polls. ....
December 28, 2020: The UN is still uncertain when the peacekeeping force will be withdrawn from Congo. The current plan is to withdraw by province. Currently peacekeepers are present in six provinces plus the capital Kinshasa. Three provinces receive most of the peacekeepers’ attention because they are the most violent: North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri, all located in eastern Congo. This month, before the December 6 announcement that Congo’s governing coalition had collapsed, MONUSCO confirmed that it plans to withdraw all peacekeepers and police from two provinces in the Kasai region by June 2021 and from Tanganyika province in June 2022. UN analysts anticipate trouble in the Kivus and Ituri well beyond December 2022. Some advisers and support staff would remain to work with the national police. As December ends, it is reasonable to question the decision to withdraw any UN peacekeepers until the Congo government’s politi ....