President Joseph Kabila named the members of the new government led by Prime Minister Matata Ponyo on Saturday. The new cabinet will have thirty six members, including two deputy prime ministers, twenty five ministers, one minister-delegate and eight deputy ministers.

Information Minister Lambert Mende told a news conference on Tuesday that the door for dialogue with opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi remains open.

Government spokesman Lambert Mende called into question the mental health of veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi on Monday, a day after the main challenger to President Joseph Kabila in the November 28 presidential election made incoherent and incendiary statements during an interview.

Le président national de l’Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social, Etienne Tshisekedi, s’est autoproclamé président de la République démocratique du Congo et a appelé ses militants à attaquer les prisons de la RDC pour libérer des militants de l’UDPS, qu’il dit être incarcérés pour des raisons politiques, si les autorités ne les libèrent pas au plus tard mardi.

The Minister of Communication and Media, Lambert Mende, said on Wednesday that the government will ensure peace and security during the upcoming elections.

President Joseph Kabila has sacked Minister of Transportation Marie-Laure Kawanda after two boat accidents left dozens killed and others missing in a span of a little over a week.

A group of armed men attacked president Joseph Kabila residence in Kinshasa on Sunday. The were repelled by his guards leaving at least six assailants dead.

Radio France Internationale (RFI) a rapporté dans son émission Afrique Midi du mardi 1 juin 2010 que le président Joseph Kabila aurait menacé de mort trois ministres de la majorité présidentielle (AMP), lors d’une réunion avec les sénateurs, députés, ministres et autres membres de l’AMP tenue le samedi passé sur sa ferme de Kingakati. Selon la journaliste Ghislaine Dupont, « les trois ministres promoteurs d’un courant baptisé Centre Libéral et Patriotique ont été sévèrement sermonnés et accusés de fomenter la rébellion au sein de la majorité présidentielle. ‘On me rapporte que vous voulez faire comme à Madagascar, un coup d’état’, [...]

The leader of the Enyele rebels who led a surprise attack on Mbandaka in April has been arrested. Mr. Udjani was handed over to the police on Wednesday by residents of his stronghold of Dongo, where he had returned to look for new recruits.

Four days after Congo Government spokesman Lambert Mende lambasted Human Rights Watch about what he called “exaggerated” allegations on the situation in eastern Congo and the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) military operation (Kimia II) against the Rwandan Hutu militia FDLR, the NGO responded with new allegations against the FARDC and their Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) allies in another operation (Umoja Wetu) earlier this year against the FDLR.