Top UN official surveys UN-supported voter registration in DR Congo
The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) continued her inaugural visit to Africa with a stop at a voter registration centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a meeting with the country’s leader, the agency said today.
The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) continued her inaugural visit to Africa with a stop at a voter registration centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a meeting with the country’s leader, the agency said today.
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark arrived in Kinshasa, where she met with President Joseph Kabila, from Liberia and will continue her tour with a stop in Ethiopia.
UNDP is helping to support the Congolese Government’s election programme which began last week with voter registration in the capital.
More than six million new voters are expected to register using 6,000 portable registration kits that include a laptop to enter the data, a webcam, a fingerprint scanner, a printer and a generator.
Miss Clark watched as citizens were able to get registration cards on the spot.
“I was very impressed by the sophistication of the operation,” Miss Clark said.
The legislative elections are scheduled for July of 2011, and the presidential vote is slated for that October.