Congo NOW! recently met with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for International Development (DFID), to express concerns in the run up to the DRC elections. To hear more about out meeting, click here (our meeting with Stephen O'Brien)

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28th January 2012

Global Witness and CCFD-Terre Solidaire welcomed a commitment [on 27 January] by EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht and Development Commissioner Piebalgs to make supply chains more transparent, a move that will help prevent natural resource-fuelled conflict. The two groups called on the Commission to swiftly roll out regulation requiring companies sourcing minerals to do checks – known as due diligence – on their supply chains. more

2nd January 2012

Further to its publication of 1 December, the Joint Electoral Observation Mission in the DRC released a statement on 16 December that provided fuller details of the electoral abuses that occurred in the DRC elections of the 28 November. This has been reproduced here (in condensed form) for Congo NOW. Alternatively, please scroll down and read the original statement in full.more

22nd December 2011

On 1 December 2011, the Joint Electoral Observation Mission in the DRC released a statement on the DRC's latest elections. Whilst they praised the fact that most people were able to vote successfully, they underlined the many electoral abuses that their observers witnessed throughout the country. Congo NOW! has reproduced this here, in condensed form. If you would like to read the original statement in its entirety, please scroll down to read it at the end of this page.more

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