DRC: More UDPS Revelations

Posted 17 April 2006 12:08 GMT

Countries	D.R. of Congo
Topics	Elections, Environment, Governance, Protest, International Relations, Politics, Ethnicity & Race, Economics & Business

UDPS Spokesman Valentin Mubake was on Congolese TV again. Blogger Tony Katombe explains (FR) that Mubake unveiled attempts by electoral commission head Rev. Malu-Malu to act as a demographer by deflating population numbers in regions where UDPS is popular. In Katombe's words, Mubake also charged that international community officials in the DRC “are involved with illicit business in the mining industry” and hence “would not for anything in the world like to see the DRC stabilize.” Mubake promised to produce evidence if necessary.

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