Kabila has spent the first four-and-a-half months of his second mandate keeping the country in suspense about the composition of his new government.
Politics makes nonsense of the DRC’s courts but the international court is setting a good example.
Nigeria’s presidential elections this weekend are going to be messy, and if last week’s gubernatorial contest is anything to go by, they are unlikely to be free and fair. Reports of electoral fraud ranging from snatched ballot boxes and missing names on the ballots themselves to a complete unavailability of electoral materials in areas such as the Niger delta have undermined what little credibility the Independent National Electoral Commission has left.