On 8 August a military court in Kinshasa sentenced former electoral commission boss Corneille Nangaa and more than two dozen members of his rebel group Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) to death by hanging...

Nangaa's brother Corneille Nangaa the former president of the CENI has gone into exile and joined the M23 rebellion...

Those culminated in Kabila instructing Corneille Nangaa the then-head of the Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI the electoral commission) to declare Tshisekedi the winner of the presidential poll...

The newly-elected Haut Uele governor is Christophe Baseane Nangaa the brother of Corneille Nangaa the head of the country's electoral commission who has been sanctioned by the United States government for his role in the December 2018 election (AC Vol 60 No 6 Kabila corners Tshisekedi)...

Senate riftIn response to the blatant fraud the Unites States State Department slapped a US visa ban on CENI head Corneille Nangaa in February...

CENI president Corneille Nangaa says the publication of preliminary results scheduled for 6 January will be postponed as tally sheets trickle in to the regional centres for official tabulation...

CENI's president Corneille Nangaa has repeatedly promised that a manual count of the ballots printed by the machines will take precedence over the data stored internally but doubts persist and in any case there are misgivings about how results will be transmitted from polling stations to the capital...

At a high-level forum on 4 October convened by CENI's president Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo only three out of 21 presidential candidates expressed support for using the machines...

On 5 February the head of the electoral commission the Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) Corneille Nangaa speculated whether the situation in Ituri could 'risk impacting negatively on the electoral calendar if nothing is done'...