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/ 17 January 2006
Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi and his Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) have expressed anger at the Independent Electoral Commission’s refusal to reopen voter registration for the benefit of UDPS supporters. The DRC must go to the polls for legislative and presidential elections by June 30.
News that Swahili has been adopted as one of the African Union’s working languages has been well received in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where nearly half the population speaks it, writes it or understands it. In all, Swahili is spoken by an estimated 70-million people in Africa.