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This article shows how political disputes continue to ravage Zimbabwe. The person involved in this article has clashed with the authoritarian state for many years, but has never succeeded. At this rate, he may never get into the government.

The National Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has shown its refusal of all attempts to amendment Article 220 of the Constitution of 2006 that currently provides for repeated rotation in the presidency after two terms of office. The Church has gone further to eliminate its participation in a religious committee to follow up arrangements of elections called on priests to transmit the message of the conference to all Christians for them to stand up against all attempts to amend the Constitution.

This article shows that the religion of the people is a valuable asset fro propaganda. The church rejects all attempts to amend the constitution, specifically areas involving the rotation of presidents after 2 terms. The presidential majority in the country want to amend the constitution to allow their president to serve 3 terms. This article relates to our discussion by showing that authoritarian rulers tend to want to stay in power, and other will resist.

This article talks about protests against a constitutional amendment that would force leaders out of office after two terms. This has been a problem with Congo-Kinshasa in the past, and it is being put in the spot-light.

Protests against DRC's government have grown and are attempted at being stopped. This shows the large amount of violence taking place.

This article describes what Congo must do to satisfy the UN-arranged peace accord, naming Rwanda refugees and delayed reforms as the barriers to achieving this. This realtes to the NPR report on the continuing violence of the civil war, and coincides with the idea that peace agreements are not always obeyed. This article also describes recent protests by citizens who want to change the constitution so leader Joseph Kabila can remain in power. This relates to the description of Kabila's leadership in the database article.

In this article, it describes how the DRC is trying to change to accept the new peace deal that they are in with 10 other African countries. There have been a lot of delays from Kinshasa because of legal issues. There have also been protests against Kabila and his overwhelming victory in the latest elections. This refers to the first article of Part F because the DRC had always had governmental problems n the past.

This article describes what the DRC needs to do to follow the peace accord. It also tells of how rape and murder go on without any punishment from the government, and many people in the militaries have been committing many crimes such as rape during these harsh times.

The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has been placed under police protection after her controversial decision to acquit the athlete. Some groups in South Africa have expressed concern of Judge Thokozile Masipa which they say could amount to racism.

After Oscar Pistorius was charged of manslaughter for killing Reeva Steenkamp, the Judge was placed under police protection for clearing the paralympian for murder. This trial has sparked angers around the world and many protests throughout South Africa.