The date announced by the electoral commission in Kinshasa is fully two  years  after Presdident Joseph Kabila’s constitutional mandate runs out.

Washington’s chief envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley says the date of December 23, 2018 for presidential  elections  in the DRC means the poll will be long overdue.

However it provides a clear timeline for the transfer of power.

She says the US will work closely with the DRC, the United Nations and other partners to ensure this timeline is stuck to and that there is peaceful participation in the elections with freedom of speech in the campaign.

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Nikki Haley has also criticized the nomination of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the top UN human rights body when, she says Congo is itself a human right violator.

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US Ambassador Nikki Haley tells the UN Security Council the looming famines in northeast Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan are primarily caused by armed conflict and represent a tragic example of the failure of those governments to address the causes, of the combatants to allow access to alleviate suffering.

She reiterates that there is a critical relationship between human rights violations and conflict, so when African nations nominate a country like the DRC for a seat on the Human Rights Council it adds to the conflict.

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Nikki Haley tells the Council of Foreign Relations in New York that the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC is mandated to partner with Kinshasa’s  crooked government.

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US Ambassador too the UN Nikki Haley says the world organization is aiding a government that is inflicting predatory behavior against its own people.

She says they  should have the decency and common sense to end this.

Haley says UN peace missions often lose their focus and become a never-ending presence in some countries.

US President Donald Trump wants to cut the size of MONUSCO, the 20 000-strong UN peace keeping force in the DRC.

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