Mathilde Boussion, Author at Valley News

Members of the Congolese opposition coalition Lamuka, led by presidential candidate Martin Faluyu, have a conversation while waiting for a statement to be issued on the timing of the release of the presidential election results in Kinshasa, Congo, Saturday Jan. 5, 2019. Congo faces what could be its first democratic, peaceful transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960, but election observers and the opposition have raised numerous concerns about voting irregularities as the country chooses a successor to longtime President Joseph Kabila. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

U.S. Fears ‘Violent’ Protests in Fallout From Congo Election

by Mathilde Boussion Associated PressJanuary 5, 2019

Kinshasa, Congo — On the eve of the first expected results of Congo’s long-delayed presidential election, President Donald Trump said military personnel had deployed to Central Africa to protect U.S. assets from possible “violent demonstrations,”…

A hairdresser waits for customers in Kinshasa, Congo, Friday Dec. 28, 2018. Congo's leader Joseph Kabila has blamed a deadly Ebola virus outbreak for the last-minute decision to keep an estimated 1 million voters from the polls in Sunday's long-delayed presidential election. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Congo Faces Troubled, Long-Delayed Election Today

by Mathilde Boussion Associated PressDecember 29, 2018

Congolese opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu and other opposition candidates address a news conference in Kinshasa, Congo, Tuesday Dec. 25, 2018. Fayulu asked that all cell phone operators who have provided the electoral commission with simcards for the voting machine disable them, as their use would about to an electronic vote, which is against the Congolese constitution. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Citizens Worry About Congo Election

by Mathilde Boussion Associated PressDecember 25, 2018