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Saturday, July 29, 2006
Long Live the Democratic Republic of Congo!
By President Thabo Mbeki, Republic of South Africa
Courtesy of ANC Today
Two days after we publish this edition of ANC TODAY, an event of historic importance to the future of Africa will take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Millions of our Congolese brothers and sisters will go to the polls. This will only be the second time since the independence of the DRC in 1960, that the Congolese people will hold genuine democratic elections to choose their President and Members of the National Assembly.
At this critical time, the people of South Africa wish the sister people of the DRC success as they vote on 30 July. We would also like to take this opportunity to urge all Congolese to work together to ensure that the elections take place in conditions of peace and calm throughout the country, to allow the Congolese people to exercise their inalienable right to select a government of their choice.
The first elections in the DRC were held in May 1960. These democratic elections led to the installation of Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister on 30 June 1960. A mere six months later, in January 1961, he was murdered.
In his Independence Day speech, Patrice Lumumba, who is now an Esteemed Member of the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, spoke about the colonial wounds of the Congolese people that were "too fresh and too painful for us to drive them from our memory".
The disaster imposed on the Congo after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the seizure of power by the late Joseph Mobutu in 1965, leading to dictatorship and plunder, meant that the Congolese people had to continue to suffer pain, even as these masses had hoped that independence had opened the way for them to heal the wounds caused by slavery and a savage system of colonialism.
Throughout the forty-six years since the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the masses of the Congolese people continued the struggle to retrieve the dream of genuine independence that had seemed to perish with the murder of that great Congolese revolutionary and African patriot, Patrice Lumumba.
We are confident that the 30 July elections will convey the firm message to the masses of the Congolese people that, once again, they are back on the high road towards the healing of their wounds.
In his final letter to his wife, before he was murdered, Patrice Lumumba wrote that, "All through my struggle for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and I have devoted all our lives".
Patrice Lumumba not only knew that Congo would be free, but was, together with his comrades, determined to use that freedom fully to restore the dignity of the Congolese people. In this regard, they would use the considerable resources of the DRC and the talents of the Congolese people to defeat the poverty and underdevelopment that had been imposed on the Congolese people through many centuries of the most cruel spoliation by the European powers.
A 24 July 2006 document on the DRC published by the "UN Integrated Regional Information Networks" said: "Turning the country around is vital for the continent as a whole, not just because of its sheer size - 2.5 million square kilometers, bordering nine countries, (with a population of at least 60 million) - but because of its mineral wealth: it holds one-third of the world's cobalt reserves; two-thirds of its coltan, used in mobile phones; and one-tenth of its copper, as well as diamonds, gold, oil, silver, timber, uranium and zinc.
"Its river system could power the entire continent and the country contains 50 percent of Africa's (natural) forests. And yet the DRC is one of the world's poorest countries, ranked 167 out of 177 in the 2005 United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Index. The potential rewards of peace and stability are high. But so are the risks."
We have no doubt that in conditions of democracy, the Congolese people have every possibility to turn themselves and their country into an outstanding African success story, an important part of the vanguard fighting for the renaissance of Africa.
We are privileged that for some years now, our country has had the possibility to work in solidarity with the Congolese people, acting together with them to restore peace, national unity and democracy to the DRC.
This started with our intervention in 1996, when, at their request, we engaged the late Laurent Kabila and Joseph Mobutu to facilitate a peaceful advance towards the installation of a Transitional Government.
It was during this period that we even had to sail a ship, the "Outeniqua" of the South African Navy, into Pointe Noir in the Republic of Congo, to provide a neutral venue for Messrs Kabila and Mobutu to meet under the mediation of Nelson Mandela.
Finally, in two days, the Congolese people will have the opportunity to reclaim the final triumph of the sacred cause proclaimed by Patrice Lumumba, for which many of their compatriots have died.
While we understand that the 30 July elections, critically important as they are, are not going to solve all the problems of the DRC, nevertheless these elections constitute a major step on the road to reconciliation, reconstruction and development in that country.
We know that the leadership and people of the DRC understand the historic responsibility that rests on their shoulders to lead their country out of many years of abuse, misery and destruction.
We say this because, for a decade, we have traveled the road to this moment with them, inspired by their resolve to lead their country to peace, unity and national reconciliation, democracy and development.
Patrice Lumumba inspired not only the Congolese, but our own movement and struggling people as well. We mourned with the Congolese people when he was killed. We took to our streets in defence of what he stood for, together with other progressive forces on our continent and elsewhere in the world.
We went on to work closely with our Congolese brothers and sisters as they took some of the first steps towards the realisation of their dream of a truly independent, democratic and prosperous Congo.
We are certain that this time the leadership of the DRC will not disappoint the masses they lead. Again we say so because we worked even more closely with them as the dictatorial regime of Mobutu Sese Seko came to its end in 1997.
We continued working with them as former President Laurent Kabila arrived in Kinshasa to take over the reigns of government in 1997. We spent many weeks working together in 1999 in Lusaka, Zambia, as they sought to find agreement on a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in their country.
We mourned the untimely death of Laurent Kabila with them. We continued working with them when Joseph Kabila was appointed President of the country.
We hosted the representatives of the Congolese people over many months at Sun City as they negotiated their transitional arrangements. We continued to host them over many days in Pretoria in 2002 as they finalised their Transitional Constitution.
The Transitional Constitution they negotiated made provision for the establishment of a government of national reconciliation, bringing together into government forces that were effectively still at war with each other.
The Constitution introduced new concepts, such as the creation of the presidential space, comprised of the President of the DRC together with four Vice Presidents, three of whom were from parties other than the President's.
This Transitional Government of National Unity assumed office in June 2003. Many so-called experts opined that this government would never survive throughout the transition. However, the Congolese political leadership showed profound patriotism in maintaining this government structure not only during the first two years of the transition, but also during the constitutionally allowed one year extension of the Transitional Government.
We reaffirm that we are confident that our Congolese brothers and sisters understand their historic responsibility to themselves and to our Continent. We say this because have seen how they have faced up to the challenges relating to various matters, such as honouring the termination of armed hostilities and the formation of new integrated security structures.
So too as they drafted and, through a successful referendum, adopted a final Constitution. We joined them in Kinshasa to celebrate the proclamation of that Constitution. Lately, we have worked very closely with the election structures of the DRC to prepare for the elections that will take place on 30 July and later.
Nobody involved in the complex Congolese transition process, including ourselves, had any doubt but that the organisation and conduct of these elections would present many challenges. However, we are certain that the Congolese Independent Electoral Commission and other Congolese institutions charged with the organisation of the elections have met, and will meet these challenges as best as they can, assisted by the UN and many nations of the world.
Already during the December 2005 Constitutional Referendum, in their millions, the Congolese masses demonstrated their determination to bring peace and democracy to their country. Over 25 million have registered as voters to participate in the 30 July and subsequent elections.
They have now participated in an election campaign that in many ways has been more peaceful than what we experienced in our own country during the period immediately preceding our first democratic elections in 1994.
Taking all these developments into account, already we can say - the Congolese people have spoken! They have spoken very loudly in favour of peace, national independence, national unity and reconciliation, democracy and human rights, development and shared prosperity!
As we arrive at a decisive moment in the modern history of the DRC and Africa, we must extend our thanks to the United Nations and all its various echelons and agencies that have supported the Congolese transition. Among these are the MONUC peacekeepers, who include a significant number of men and women of the South African National Defence Force.
Liberated South Africa has done what it had to do in a spirit of true African solidarity, inspired by the 1960 Independence Day declaration of Patrice Lumumba that, "We are going to rule not by the peace of guns and bayonets but by a peace of the heart and will". Long live the Democratic Republic of Congo!
Dawn in the Heart of Africa
A Poem by Patrice Lumumba
For a thousand years, you, African, suffered like beast,
Your ashes strewn to the wind that roams the desert.
Your tyrants built the lustrous, magic temples
To preserve your soul, reserve your suffering.
Barbaric right of fist and the white right to a whip,
You had the right to die, you also could weep.
On your totem they carved endless hunger, endless bonds,
And even in the cover of the woods a ghastly cruel death
Was watching, snaky, crawling to you
Like branches from the holes and heads of trees
Embraced your body and your ailing soul.
Then they put a treacherous big viper on your chest:
On your neck they laid the yoke of fire-water,
They took your sweet wife for glitter of cheap pearls,
Your incredible riches that nobody could measure.
From your hut, the tom-toms sounded into dark of night
Carrying cruel laments up mighty black rivers
About abused girls, streams of tears and blood,
About ships that sailed to countries where the little man
Wallows in an ant hill and the dollar is king,
To that damned land which they called a motherland.
There your child, your wife were ground, day and night
In a frightful, merciless mill, crushing them in dreadful pain.
You are a man like others. They preach you to believe
That good white God will reconcile all men at last.
By fire you grieved and sang the moaning songs
Of a homeless beggar that sinks at strangers' doors.
And when a craze possessed you
And your blood boiled through the night
You danced, you moaned, obsessed by father's passion.
Like furry of a storm to lyrics of a manly tune
From a thousand years of misery a strength burst out of you
In metallic voice of jazz, in uncovered outcry
That thunders through the continent like gigantic surf.
The whole world surprised, wakes up in panic
To the violent rhythm of blood, to the violent rhythm of jazz,
The white man turning pallid over this new song
That carries torch of purple through the dark of night.
The dawn is here, my brother! Dawn! Look in our faces,
A new morning breaks in our old Africa.
Ours alone will now be the land, the water, mighty rivers
Poor African surrendered for a thousand years.
Hard torches of the sun will shine for us again
They'll dry the tears in eyes and spittle on your face.
The moment when you break the chains, the heavy fetters,
The evil cruel times will go never to come again.
A free and gallant Congo will rise from black soil,
A free and gallant Congo-black blossom from black seed!
Weep, Beloved Black Brother
A poem by Patrice Lumumba.
O black man, beast of burden through the centuries,
Your ashes scattered to the winds of heaven,
There was a time when you built burial temples
In which your murderers sleep their final sleep.
Hunted down and tracked, driven from your homes.
Beaten in battles where brute force prevailed.
Barbaric centuries of rape and carnage
That offered you the choice of death or slavery.
You went for refuge to the forest depths,
And other deaths waylaid you, burning fevers,
Jaws of wild beasts, the cold, unholy coils
Of snakes who crushed you gradually to death.
Then came the white man, more clever, tricky, cruel,
He took your gold in trade for shoddy stuff,
He raped your women, made your warriors drunk,
Penned up your sons and daughters on his ships.
The tom-toms hummed through all the villages,
Spreading afar the mourning, the wild grief
At news of exile to a distant land
Where cotton is God and the dollar King.
Condemned to enforced labor, beasts of burden,
Under a burning sun from dawn to dusk,
So that you might forget you are a man
They taught you to sing the praises of their God,
And these hosannas, tuned into your sorrows,
Gave you the hope of a better world to come.
But in your human heart you only asked
The right to live, your share of happiness.
Beside your fire, your eyes reflect your dreams and suffering,
You sang the chants that gave voice to your blues.
And sometimes to your joys, when sap rose in the trees
And you danced wildly in the damp of evening
And out of this sprang forth, magnificent,
Alive and virile, like a bell of brass
Sounding your sorrows, that powerful music,
Jazz, now loved, admired throughout the world,
Compelling the white man to respect,
Announcing in clear loud tones from this time on
This country no longer belongs to him.
And thus you make the brothers of your race
Lift up their heads to see clear, straight ahead
The happy future bearing deliverance.
The banks of a great river in flower with hope
Are yours from this time onward.
The earth and all its riches
Are yours from this time onward.
The blazing sun in the colorless sky
Dissolves our sorrow in a wave of warmth.
Its burning rays will help to dry forever The flood of tears shed by our ancestors,
Martyrs of the tyranny of the masters.
And on this earth which you will always love
You will make the Congo a nation, happy and free,
In the very heart of vast Black Africa.
Translated from the French original by Lillian Lowenfels and Nan Apotheker.
Lumumba's Letter from his Prison in Thysville (now Mbanza Ngungu) to his wife, Pauline
Patrice Lumumba
In Sorrow But Defiant
What Manner of A Man?
We Love You!
My dear wife,
I am writing these words not knowing whether they will reach you, when they will reach you, and whether I shall still be alive when you read them.
All through my struggle for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and I have devoted all our lives.
But what we wished for our country, its right to an honourable life, to unstained dignity, to independence without restrictions, was never desired by the Belgian imperialists and their Western allies who found direct and indirect support, both deliberate and unintentional amongst certain high officials of the United Nations, that organisation in which we placed all our trust when we called on its assistance.
They have corrupted come of our compatriots and bribed others. They have helped to distort the truth and bring our independence into dishonour. How could I speak otherwise?
Dead or alive, free or in prison by order of the imperialists, it is not I myself who count. It is the Congo; it is our poor people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage from beyond whose confines the outside world looks on us, sometimes with kindly sympathy but at other times with joy and pleasure.
But my faith will remain unshakeable. I know and feel in my heart that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of all their enemies, both internal and external, and that they will rise as one man to say no to the degradation and shame of colonialism, and regain their dignity in the dear light of the sun.
As to my children whom I leave and whom I may never see again, I should like them to be told that it is for every Congolese, to accomplish the sacred task of reconstructing our independence and our sovereignty for without justice there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.
Neither brutality, nor cruelty, nor torture will ever bring me to ask for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head unbowed, my faith unshakeable and with profound trust in the destiny of my country, rather than live under subjection and disregarding sacred principles.
History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or at the United Nations, but the history which will be taught in the countries freed from imperialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and to the north and south of the Sahara, it will be a glorious and dignified history.
Don not weep for me, my dear wife. I know that my country, which is suffering so much, will know how to defend its independence and its liberty.
Long Live Congo, Long Live Africa
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- Pan-African News Wire said...
Tuesday August 1, 1:45 AM
DR Congo rivals happy with historic vote
Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) began a four week wait to see whether President Joseph Kabila has, as predicted, won the former Belgian colony's first free elections since independence in 1960.
By late afternoon 60 percent of ballots had been processed but the final count will not be known until August 31 because of the vast size of the DRC and the ravages inflicted by its five-year war.
African and European leaders praised the Congolese for voting smoothly and en masse and called on political rivals to respect the outcome in an what is seen as a vital test for democracy.
The chief candidates were bitter enemies during the 1998-2003 war and still command massive armed support.
"I call on the participants to respect the electoral verdict," African Union chief Alpha Omar Konare said.
Kabila and his most serious challenger, rebel-turned-politician Jean-Pierre Bemba, both signalled that so far they saw no reason to cry foul.
The electoral commission said voting was extended on Monday in more than 200 districts in the Kasai region, including the diamond mining town of Mbuyi-Maji, where opposition supporters threw stones and torched polling stations at the weekend.
Elsewhere in the country voters who have never known democracy had streamed to the polls with enthusiasm on Sunday.
The United Nations said the vote was a logistical "miracle", while the European Union said it was "the concrete realisation of a very old dream for the Congolese."
The nation will learn the results of the vote for a 500-seat parliament, which took place alongside the presidential poll, within the coming weeks.
A second presidential round will take place on October 29 unless Kabila or one of his 32 challengers wins 50 percent of the votes cast on Sunday.
At 35, Kabila is Africa's youngest head of state and one that few thought would survive.
But he has won over the Congolese and the West by holding together complex peace deals in the aftermath of what the UN dubbed "Africa's World War".
It sucked in seven neighbours, claimed millions of lives through combat and war-related suffering, and turned the DRC into a running sore at the centre of the continent.
"The people were worn out by this war. There was no way to make money, no schools," teacher Dieudonne Baroki said after voting in the eastern town of Rutshuru.
"I trust Kabila because he has tried to bring peace to all the country."
A truce was signed on the eve of the vote with one of the rebel groups still active in the east near the border with Rwanda, which is watching the outcome of the vote closely after deposing two leaders in the DRC in the 1990s.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame helped rebels first topple Mobutu Sese Seko, a dictator who made the country a byword for corruption, and then Kabila's father, Laurent.
The reason was their failure to flush out Hutu killers who were hiding in the eastern DRC after taking part in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Kabila has managed to make peace with Kagame since he succeeded his assassinated father in 2001.
On Sunday, voters in the former Rwandan-controlled eastern capital of Goma stood happily in queues and pored over ballot papers the size of newspapers, bearing hundreds of names and photographs.
"This is truly a cause for much joy. I've never voted in my whole life," said Jerome Amza, 45.
The international community funded the elections at a cost of almost half a billion dollars and hopes they will not only bring stability to central Africa but also revive the DRC's ruined economy.
The country has vast natural wealth that has routinely been plundered by foreigners since it became a Belgian colony in 1908.
It became independent in 1960 just after the last free elections.
Those were won by Patrice Lumumba, but he was soon deposed by Mobutu, who for the next three decades filtered much of the Congo's wealth into private Swiss bank accounts.
After war broke out, diamonds and coltan were freely looted by fighters on all sides while the population sank deeper into dire poverty. Most still live on around one dollar a day.
First results posted in DR Congo
Polling stations in the Democratic Republic of Congo have begun posting interim results, after the first multi-party election in 40 years.
Full results of Sunday's polls are not expected for weeks.
The elections were aimed at ending a long civil war, with 32 candidates, including incumbent Joseph Kabila, contesting the presidency.
Over 9,000 candidates stood for parliament. Some 25m voters were protected by 17,000 UN peacekeepers.
It is still far from clear whether a second round will be required, or whether a candidate will gain the 50% of the votes needed to win outright, the BBC News website's Joseph Winter reports from Kinshasa.
32 presidential candidates
9,709 parliamentary candidates
25.6m voters
50,000 polling stations
260,000 electoral staff
The RCD party, led by former rebel and Vice-President Azarias Ruberwa, told our correspondent there had been "widespread fraud".
RCD Secretary General Kabasu Babu Katulondi said RCD representatives had been chased out of polling stations when counting started, while ruling PPRD officials had been caught trying to vote more than once.
"The delay is one of Kabila's tricks to manipulate the figures," he said.
Results from several polling stations seemed to back up pre-election predictions that former rebel leader and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba would win most votes in Kinshasa.
However President Kabila was expected to win more votes in eastern DR Congo, where he is credited with ending the war.
Thomas Luaka, a spokesman for Mr Bemba's MLC party said that while he "deplored some incidents, overall, the elections went well".
Earlier, Mr Bemba's supporters had demonstrated on the streets of the capital, Kinshasa, saying they were cheated.
Independent Electoral Commission official Carole Kabanga Kaoy said she could not comment on the allegations of fraud until she had received official reports, at which point each party would be free to provide evidence of irregularities.
Mr Kabila, who came to power unelected in 2001, has told the BBC he will accept the result of Sunday's presidential elections, even if he loses.
"It would have been the verdict of the people and of course we will definitely accept the verdict of the people," he said.
Opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi and his UDPS party boycotted the vote.
There were reports of violence on election day in Mr Tshisekedi's stronghold, the south-eastern Kasai region.
But a United Nations official said he was "relieved" and "delighted" with how the voting had gone.
"All indications that we have, not just from Kinshasa, but across the country is that the population has responded fairly substantively," UN envoy Ross Mountain said.
"The number of incidents have been absolutely minimal. The security hasn't been a problem and it has been an extraordinary day for Congo."
BBC world affairs correspondent Mark Doyle says the real test of the elections will be the acceptance of the results by all of the former warring parties.
The presidential candidates include the four vice-presidents who took office in 2003 in terms of a transitional power-sharing deal.
Three of the four vice-presidents are the leaders of former armed factions.
Some opposition candidates accuse Mr Kabila of being backed by the international community, and are already unofficially complaining about what they say are irregularities in the voting, our corresponent says.
Story from BBC NEWS:
Published: 2006/07/31 21:26:55 GMT
Former rebel claims Congo poll lead
KINSHASA - A former Congo rebel leader said on Monday initial results gave him a lead in landmark presidential elections and warned he would not accept defeat by President Joseph Kabila if he felt the process was rigged.
Defying calls from election authorities not to predict the results, Jean-Pierre Bemba said that preliminary counts from Sunday's vote compiled by his party's election witnesses showed he held a strong lead in six of Congo's eleven provinces.
But counting was still taking place across the vast country the size of western Europe and electoral authorities say they will issue official preliminary results within three weeks.
The ballot was the Democratic Republic of Congo's first free elections in more than 40 years. The polls are meant to cement peace after a brutal 1998-2003 war which killed 4 million people, but complaints of some irregularities by Bemba and another ex-rebel have raised fears of a political crisis.
Asked what percentage of the vote he thought he had won, Bemba told foreign journalists: "40 to 45 percent, or perhaps as high as 51 percent. Kabila, for me, he will not exceed 40 percent."
Kabila, who took power in the former Belgian colony after the assassination of his father Laurent in 2001, is regarded as favorite to win. His spokesman said Bemba should respect the Independent Electoral Council's right to announce results.
"The trend we have for now is that we're winning but we are waiting for the results. We are playing by the rules," presidential spokesman Kudura Kasongo told Reuters.
If no-one gains more than 50 percent of the vote, a second round will be held on October 29. Bemba, who has served as vice president in Kabila's transition government under a 2003 peace deal, said he expected to take part in any second round.
Asked what would happen if he did not, Bemba said: "That would be terrible for the country ... No nation can accept a vote being stolen."
"The unity of this country is so fragile. Don't add more reason for people to say 'I am not going to accept this government'. That is why I insist on transparency," he said.
Earlier on Monday, international figures urged the presidential candidates to accept the outcome of the elections, which they praised as an example to Africa.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer, the highest ranking foreign official to witness the polls, sent a clear message that the international community would not allow disgruntled losers to derail the election.
"The international community is united," Frazer told Reuters in an interview. "If the point is 'I didn't get enough votes, therefore it's not legitimate', then the regional leaders, the African Union leaders, will weigh in."
Senior African statesmen, grouped in an International Committee of Elders, said the massive turnout and mostly peaceful voting were an indication the Congolese wanted peace, despite pre-election fears of violence.
"This has made the Congolese an example for African elections," the head of the committee, ex-Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, told a news conference.
"There must be no recourse to violence, we must (have) dialogue, dialogue, dialogue."
Faced with organizing a vote in a huge country that lacks basic infrastructure, the international community invested $450 million in the polls.
Twenty-five million Congolese were eligible to vote under the watchful gaze of 17,000 U.N. troops, the world's biggest peacekeeping mission.
International observers noted some localized violence, particularly in southern Kasai provinces, a stronghold of the opposition UDPS party which boycotted the polls.
Voting continued on Monday in more than 200 polling stations in Mbuji Mayi and Mweka, towns in south-central Congo, to cover areas where violence prevented polling on Sunday.
That represented just a tiny portion of the 50,000 polling booths used during Sunday's election. - 12:19 AM
- Pan-African News Wire said...
Kabila looks set for Congo victory
By Steve Bloomfield in Goma, North Kivu
Published: 01 August 2006
Joseph Kabila appeared to be heading to victory after Sunday's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The incumbent President swept the eastern regions, picking up more than 80 per cent of the vote in the majority of polling stations in North and South Kivu, according to preliminary results.
In Katanga, a province in the south, Mr Kabila was polling at more than 55 per cent. However, in the capital, Kinshasa, Jean Pierre-Bemba, the warlord turned politician, was narrowly topping the polls.
Voters, who had turned up in enormous numbers for Sunday's elections - the first in more than 40 years - returned to polling stations yesterday to find out the results, which were pinned up on noticeboards.
The slow process of compiling results from more than 50,000 polling stations spread across a country the size of western Europe is expected to last at least two weeks. But already Mr Kabila's supporters have begun celebrating.
A second round of voting in the presidential elections was planned for October, but observers believe Mr Kabila may have done enough to win outright.
Such a result could trigger fresh fighting in a country wracked by more than a decade of conflict. Both Mr Bemba and another former warlord, Azarias Ruberwa, have said they will not accept the result if there are "irregularities". In the east, the rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is reportedly increasing his recruitment of child soldiers.
One international observer said the election may not deliver peace: "This election is going to divide the country. If Kabila wins in the first round, there is a question whether people in Kinshasa will accept it."
Joseph Kabila appeared to be heading to victory after Sunday's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The incumbent President swept the eastern regions, picking up more than 80 per cent of the vote in the majority of polling stations in North and South Kivu, according to preliminary results.
In Katanga, a province in the south, Mr Kabila was polling at more than 55 per cent. However, in the capital, Kinshasa, Jean Pierre-Bemba, the warlord turned politician, was narrowly topping the polls.
Voters, who had turned up in enormous numbers for Sunday's elections - the first in more than 40 years - returned to polling stations yesterday to find out the results, which were pinned up on noticeboards.
The slow process of compiling results from more than 50,000 polling stations spread across a country the size of western Europe is expected to last at least two weeks. But already Mr Kabila's supporters have begun celebrating.
A second round of voting in the presidential elections was planned for October, but observers believe Mr Kabila may have done enough to win outright.
Such a result could trigger fresh fighting in a country wracked by more than a decade of conflict. Both Mr Bemba and another former warlord, Azarias Ruberwa, have said they will not accept the result if there are
In the east, the rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is reportedly increasing his recruitment of child soldiers.
One international observer said the election may not deliver peace: "This election is going to divide the country. If Kabila wins in the first round, there is a question whether people in Kinshasa will accept it." - 12:52 AM


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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Genuine Girl
~[ Day 16: The Sweetest Idol. ]~
We're halfway there!
The sweetest idol in my opinion would be Kumai Yurina
Yurina always has a smile on her face, and her personalty is nothing short of amazing. It seems like it would be a challenge to get her angry. Whenever I see her perform an emotional song, I always wonder where she gets her energy from. Whenever she's the MC at a concert, or part of a TV show, she always has something good to say about the other members. She looks like the type of person who the rest of the group relies on the most. If I knew her personally, I think she would be the first person to help out in any situation.
30 day idol challenge,
day 16,
kumai yurina
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Desculpas por não postar comentários antes, meu computador tava com defeito, não dava pra comentar, mas eu li todos o posts e amei,concordo com o que você disse da Riho, tem uma coisa dentro dela que me da medo(parece que ela quer dominar o H!P pra ela)
Sobre este post: ameiii, Yurina sempre foi uma das minhas favoritas (5º lugar), sempre teve um lugar no meu coração.
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text: Maybe some took advantage of that but for the most part I saw some of the gals, putting pillows between them and some of the guys slept on the floor or chairs. I found that amusing. One of the reasons I think the relationships last is because they had to learn to trust each other in the various things they had to do. Trust is a major component in building a relationship that makes it. There is no hiding who they are because of the challenges and it makes it more real, I think. On the bachelor/ette everything inside the bubble is all roses and peachy keen and then they come out of that and face real life.


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laying down on the warmth of spring I close my eyes and drink in the luscious heavenly scent,so as never to forget this moment,this peace this bliss.
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Here's the best batch of tributes to the just-departed Ingmar Bergman that I've come across on the Web today. I think I like this bunch because none of them make lame, obvious references to "The Seventh Seal."
Then again, none are quite daring enough to say that he was the greatest filmmaker of all time – which, the more I've been thinking about what Bergman accomplished, the more I suspect is the case. Woody Allen comes closest, and of course made the sweetest joke; he should know.
More in a few days when I've really had time to consider whether the incisive Swede, whose poorer films could admittedly bore me to tears, did more in the medium more than such all-time favorites of mine as Yasujiro Ozu, Luis Bunuel and Stanley Kubrick.


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Gemini Rue is a moody adventure set in the far future. The game opens with a scene in a futuristic surgery room where a patient is having his memory wiped. That character is called Delta-Six and he is locked up in some sort of hospital. The player will need to control him to discover the environment. Another slice of the story deals with Azriel Odin. He is a former assassin and arrives in the rain-drenched city of Pittsburg on the Colony of Barracus, part of the Gemini System. He has a meeting with a certain Matthius Howard and the player has to arrange this. Pittsburgh is in the tight grip of a crime gang known by the name Boryokudan. The entire game is split up in different scenes where the player controls either the prisoner or Azriel. When a scene has been completed, the perspective moves to the other character and eventually their paths converge. During the course of the game other characters can also be controlled sometimes, temporarily.The game is controlled in the classic point-and-click tradition. Characters are guided around the environment using the mouse and when a certain object or character can be interacted with, the name is shown in text. Clicking them reveals an inventory to use an object or four commands: eye (examine), hand (use), speech balloon (talk) and foot (kick). Inventory use is limited as the player does not need to combine items in the inventory and no more than ten items are carried at any time. Items inside the inventory can be examined to reveal additional information.
Puzzles consist of dialogue trees where the correct conversation path needs to be chosen, environment puzzles and item puzzles. There is also one more difficult puzzle where a sequence needs to be formed in a console, but some hints are provided for that. There are a number of features that distinguish it from similar games. Azriel has access to the Communicator device. He uses it to talk to Kane, a friend who is in a space ship that orbits the planet. Kane can arrange a number of things and also provides clues during conversations to further the story. The Communicator also stores notes with important information, names of characters and has a phone function to get in contact with a number of people. After locating an identity card Azriel can access terminals. These contain news items, a database of locations and characters (useful to look up phone numbers and home addresses) and a map of the city. Personal identity cards can also reveal diary entries and profile information.
Both characters can die during the game. There is both a manual and an automatic save system. Automatic saves are triggered before entering a dangerous situation. Both Azriel and Delta-Six have access to a shooting and cover system. They will sometimes find themselves in a standoff with enemies. Players use keys on the keyboard to take cover, lean left or right, and reload. In fights with multiple targets the opponent to aim at can be chosen. Players need to wait until an enemy stops shooting, quickly pop out and fire. It also incorporates a focus system where a character can concentrate to perform a head shot and take out an opponent quicker. The difficulty of the game's rare combat moments can be adjusted in the options.
Another unusual element is the ability to move certain items (usually crates of boxes) to reposition them. A character can then climb on top to grab a high object. During a certain portion of the game the player can switch between Azriel and Delta-Six using a portrait in the top right corner. That function is not used to cooperate in the same environment, but rather to offer the player a distraction with one character when you are clueless about proceeding for the other one. When the scene is completed for one character, the portrait disappears and the other scene needs to be completed. During certain sequences NPCs can be asked to follow you and cooperate in another location. All characters are voiced and portraits appear during conversations.
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- "Gemini Rue: Verschwörung auf Barracus" -- German tag-lined title
- "Boryokudan Rue" -- Working title
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Great adventure game with awful graphics | Windows | Ingsoc (1212) |
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Gamer Limit | Windows | Dec 13, 2011 | 9 out of 10 | 90 |
Softpedia | iPad | May 13, 2013 | 8.5 out of 10 | 85 |
Hardcore Droid | Android | Jan 17, 2014 | 82 | |
Game Over Online | Windows | Jan 09, 2012 | 82 out of 100 | 82 |
Looki | Windows | Sep 26, 2011 | 81 out of 100 | 81 |
GameSpy | Windows | Nov 10, 2011 | 80 | |
Adventure Island | Windows | Mar 19, 2011 | 8 out of 10 | 80 |
GameStar (Germany) | Windows | Oct 09, 2011 | 79 out of 100 | 79 |
4Players.de | Windows | Feb 24, 2011 | 78 out of 100 | 78 |
Adventure Corner | Windows | Feb 24, 2011 | 75 out of 100 | 75 |
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Developer References
While looking for a way into the Boryokudan headquarters, you can mention a number of names to the doorman. Four of these are game developers known for working on AGS games:Game References
During a certain scene you need to select one of five available crates. You can easily exhaust all options, but any adventure fan should spot that PQ-1, SQ-2, LSL-5 and MI-2 will be empty crates.Hidden Anime Characters
The game contains four hidden characters from the Cowboy Bebop anime series. They are:- Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV and Ein
- Faye Valentine
- Jet Black
- Spike Spiegel
- GameSpy
- 2011 – Adventure Game of the Year
Related Web Sites
- Gemini Rue (official website)
- Gemini Rue (project page on the publisher's website)
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Starring:Brian Silliman (Azriel & Delta-Six), Shelly Smith‑Shenoy (Sayuri & Epsilon-Five), Joe Rodriguez (Director), Clay MacLeod Chapman (Matthius & Balder), Abe Goldfarb (Kane), Dara Seitzman (Giselle), Sarah Elmaleh (Computer & BeeBee & Scientist 4), Francisco Gonzalez (Street Vendor), David L. Gilbert (Kenneth & Agent 1 & Scientist 1), Daryl Lathon (Boss & Cell Mate & Receptionist), Matt Morea (Erickson & Agent 4 & Scientist 3), Ray Saltrelli (Door Guard & Scientist 2), Joseph M. Ward (Agent 2 & Meds Doorman), Walid K Ba‑Attiyah (Agent 3), Nathan Allen Pinard (Receptionist), Brian Chiu (Scientist 5 & Resident), Bonnie Anne Hudson Pinard (Defector Voice)
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To not be upset that I'll never bf again
(32 Posts)I have 3 kids. There will be no more. I fed the two eldest for a year each. DS2 is 18 months tomorrow. He has one feed every night before bedtime. He will go to sleep without it for DH no problem. I have decided that I will take advantage of DH being off for Easter and get him to put DS2 to bed thereby kicking him off the boob.
Tonight will be the last time I ever breastfeed again. DH, DM, friends are all expecting me to be emotional and I am not at all. I am fine, looking forward to it actually. Am I dead inside?
I think it is strange people would think it odd for you to not get emotional to be honest. It's not rocket science, it's just a way of feeding your baby who is now going onto the next phase.
I bf for 6 weeks, gave up and never gave it another thought.
I think they are the odd ones!
God no. I'm bfing dd currently and while i do enjoy it i will heave a sigh of relief when i stop same as i did when i stopped feeding ds.
I don't think so.
I'm 9wks gone with DC3 and it will be our last one. When I found out, I was full of all that - how sad, this is the last time I'll ever do x,y,z.
Now I'm nauseous and bloody knackered all the time and I keep reminding myself that I NEVER EVER have to do this again!!
No YANBU. I bf my 2 dc for 15 and 13 mths respectively. It's just gone a year since I stopped and it's been lovely to have my body back. I'm glad I did it, but am glad it's done with as well!
Squitten I could have wrote that myself except I'm pregnant with DC4.
I punched the air in victory when I fed DD1 for the last time (the day after her 1st birthday). I was fed up to the back teeth with it, but she was a bottle-refuser. I'm now feeding DD2 and can't wait for the 6 month mark, when I plan to start gradually weaning her off the breast. She's our last baby, so as of autumn this year I will hopefully have my body back - hurrah! YANBU.
YANBU. Everything has to come to an end.
I BF'd DS and DD 13 and 18 months respectively; they were 18 months aparts, so I was either pregnant and/or breastfeeding for over 3 years.
I felt nothing but relief to finally get my body back.
No, of course not. FGS.
Your friends are as they are.
Breastfeeding has its time, and children grow.
It would be silly to want it to go on and on and on, forever. (disclaimer - not commenting on how long you breastfeed for, but it has to stop at some point)
everyone is different aren't they?
I will miss the only quite time I get with my frenetic toddler but I wont miss the hormone rush that can make me feel nauseous...and just a little like my soul is being sucked out...
I felt quite liberated when I stopped b' feeding DC1 at 15m, as up until then I fed her to sleep every night, so it was always me that had to put her to bed.
However I'm now b'feeding DC2 who is 6m, and he will be our last - although I have no plans to give up b'feeding any time soon, I am already feeling sad at the prospect of it ending one day.
But no, you are definitely not being unreasonable - it's a good job we are all different!
I was so pleased to stop actually, not emotional at all. Just quite happy about the fact that my boobs would shrink a bit, i was fed up with having comedy boobs
God no!
I secretly hate bf actually. Not the act itself! Which is good, obviously.
I have having tiny person being so dependent on you your life is basically on hold. Everytime you go out without them is a stressful risk. It's suffocating and makes me feel very depressed.
I have been pregnant or breast feeding for 5 and half of the last 7 years. I am just ready to move onto the next phase. Just have my body back.
tewi that doesn't sound like a great place to be in!
Is the feeding that is making you feel like that or the responsibility in general? Could you stockpile some milk and feel more secure?
I'm not feeding right now, thank god! But pg, next baby will be at minimum mixed fed if not ff, because I honestly can't do it again.
My last baby DS was a bottle refuser, fed a lot + bad sleeper, added to the fact I can't drive so was spending 4hrs a day walking with DD to preschool until DS was 13mths, life has been very monotonous and very difficult.
When people say "don't introduce bottles before 6wks" i chip in now and say make sure you do it ASAP if baby having bottles is important to you!
I will miss breastfeeding when I stop. I think the hormones affect me more than other women. I drop straight off to sleep after feeding when otherwise I am an insomniac, and every time I have fed DC I have felt all calm and peaceful.
Ah. I wish you could buy prolactin and oxytocin.
Totally selfish reasons there but never mind!
Just finished breastfeeding my son and he's 2.5... And then only because I'm recently pregnant with number 2, and it seems to have finally put him off. I get precisely 7 months respite before the next round.
YANBU! It's not like I didn't like breastfeeding, but it was stressful, and despite what some people will insist, it isn't always the most convenient option. Especially when you have to go back to working nights when they're nine months old and refusing a bottle of anything. And then there's self-weaning a toddler who would rather poke himself in the eye with a lego than give up the boob.
I hated BF so much that I vowed never to have anymore DC. I couldn't bring a child into the world without BF and I didn't want to BF anymore, so I got sterilised at 30yo. Best thing I ever did TBH, because I can now get on with my life.
Oh god, YANBU. I absolutely hated it. Did DC1 and DC3 for 6 months each, DC2 for 3 months. Hated every little part of it. The grim sensation, the fact that no else can settle the baby, the constant togetherness, gah. I loved all my DC, had no depression issues, but never ever liked bfing. I always knew i'd do it for each one, didn't consider formula, but it was a huge huge relief when I finally put my sagging tits back in my bra for the last time.
Can I just say, I have no problems with anyone else bfing, just that it really wasn't my cup of tea!
Yanbu, it's a big step and sad acknowledging that you will never do it again, dd2 is my 3rd and last baby, I'm enjoying each day because I know that soon she will lose that delicious newborn snuggliness and I'll never get it again, same with the bf, in a few months she will be weaning onto solids and while I look forward to the freedom it will give me I'm also sad that she won't need me quite so much any more
You can buy oxytocin nasal sprays, notime. Not sure about prolactin.
Prolactin is in Motillium. So there you go notimefors. Get off your tits.
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lol you got to be kidding
a monster?
god is the only one
not this damn spaghetti monster
im tired of the bullshit-tiredofb.s
lol you got to be kidding
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@Fucked in the head, #109
Don't be such a fucknig (sic) asshole. I think you are a troll. Even a moronic Evangelist couldn't write this stupidly.
Go take a fliegenden fuck at a rolling donut.
Pirates -
"tired of the bullshit"? Then please explain why you mention that "god is the only one". About as bullshit as it comes
Ew, wash the religious zealot off me.
I can only think of one thing to say to 'Fuckedinthehead'
"Yes, indeed, you most definitely are."
But He/She may need to find someone to explain it to them. May I suggest an exorcist?
ok.. I'm sorry about that comment above
Why is it that all of these "religious" people seem to have to resort to foul language to achieve their "point"? I'm not quite so sure the God you are praying to would be all that proud of your graphic display of profanity. Perhaps, before putting us down again, you should go apologize to your God for your mis-representation of your "religion".
May you be touched by his noodly appendage. RAmen.
I wanna eat your God. Literally.


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These are the ones in which I have inserted the pillow forms. There are lots more that a simply pillow covers. They range in size from 12x12 to 12x16.
I may actually use up all the "Peace on Earth", "Grace", "Glace'" and "Roman Holiday" 3 Sisters fabric that I have been hoarding!
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i raced (gasp on the street!) a few 5.0's one was my friends. He had 3.73s, a cam, intake, exhaust, and headers. He's the only one that emberassed me.
you have nothing to hang your head about, even with her 16.00 flat. that would still be a low 10.?? in the 1/8 mile for her. Consider this, a stock 2.73 geared aod fox body mustang with no mods at all, and on street tires, will only run about 10.10-10.20 in the 1/8 mile, trust me, I had one, and it was stock right down to the air silencer, so times aren't bad at all, they just seem that way because you are used to looking at v-8 times and seeing those in the 13's or high 14's, so don't fret about it. i think for what these cars put out, these times are great, auto or stick, and they are certainly comparable to the old fox bodies when you are talking stock to stock.
I'm still humming and hawing over getting a new stang right now vs. waiting a bit. My car is almost paid for and going a year or so without having to make a payment at all is very tempting. Threads like this don't make the wait very easy. The trend of the V6 keeping up to or out running the Fox 5.0's began with the 99+ cars. Stock they can run a 15.6 with an open dif. and a driver with more experience than I'll ever get in my lifetime. My 02 is not as heavy, but it is still frame challenged. With 204BHP and 245BTQ - My best times are all in the 15.4's @ 90 without subs and NO traction (2.3-2.4 60 FT), so I might get a bit more out of it with some extra metal. Thing is, it's just not an 05. If these cars are getting mid 15's stock, it's a 14.8 car in the right conditions on 87o! With the right SCT tune, I could see mid 14's or better. That is just amazing considering the 250+ lb weight advantage I have, duals, tracklock, 93o Tune... and the times being so close. It would seem the S197 is cutting off .5 just with the chassis design. If power to weight was the same for 99+ vs. an 05, I could see the 05 6's near a second faster in the 1/4. Z.


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Michael Imperioli was born in Mt. Vernon, New York, on March 26, 1966. His film work began in the late 1980s. An early part that brought him recognition was in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), as Spider, a local kid who works for the gangsters and has a run-in with a psychopathic mob soldier played by Joe Pesci. He worked throughout the 1990s in the New York independent film industry, especially as a regular in Spike Lee's movies, appearing in Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996) and Summer of Sam (1999), generally playing working-class Italian-Americans from the "outer boroughs." While rooted in the New York movie scene, Imperioli also worked in Hollywood in the mid-'90s, in the formulaic movies Bad Boys (1995) and Last Man Standing (1996/I).
In 1999 Imperioli was cast in "The Sopranos" (1999) as Christopher Moltisanti, a low-ranking soldier in the Soprano crime organization whose family connections to street boss Tony Soprano move him up the ladder in the organization. Imperioli's multi-layered portrayal of such an unappealing character is a real highlight of the series and earned him an Emmy and a SAG award.
Imperioli has long been active in the New York theater scene as well, having written, directed, produced or starred in numerous plays. He was a founder, along with Lili Taylor (I) (his then-girlfriend and co-star in Household Saints (1993)) of the downtown theater company Machine Full. He has also written several episodes of "The Sopranos" and was a writer on Lee's "Summer of Sam," which he also executive-produced.
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Fabio Cannavaro, the former World Player of the Year, retired yesterday, five years to the day since captaining Italy to World Cup glory.
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1140 mg | + |
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300 mg | + |
Organic Antioxidant Berry Blend Strawberry, Blueberry, Blackberry, Cherry, Raspberry |
80 mg | + |
*Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2000 calorie diet. + Daily Value (DV) not established ** Produced using the Poten-Zyme fermentation process |
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Western Star Trails from Portugal By: Goncalo Lemos |
National Pine Forest, Marinha Grande, Portugal 2009 March 16 | |||
From the photographer: "This was taken near one of the highest sand dunes in Europe visible on the lower right of the image. It is part of a ridge of sand dunes that extends across 15 km's, near the Atlantic coast, in the National Pine Forest, Portugal" - Goncalo Lemos All TWAN photos and videos are copyrighted. | ||||
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