Today, the Congo Research Group (CRG) is publishing two separate leaks of data related to the Congolese presidential elections: The first is a partial tally of election results from the central database of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), representing 86% of the total votes cast, which was leaked by

A few days ahead of presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University is publishing simultaneous political opinion polls conducted by Bureau d’études, de Recherches, et de Consulting International (BERCI), and Ipsos South Africa with its partner GeoPoll. The polls reveal

  Ce mardi 27 novembre, le Groupe d’Etude sur le Congo basé au Centre sur Coopération international de l’Université de New York publiera la deuxième note de sa série sur le processus électoral en République Démocratique du Congo. Alors que le processus électoral entre dans sa dernière ligne droite avec

Suite à des demandes de clarification, nous publions des détails additionnels sur notre sondage d’octobre 2018. Notre base de ce sondage provient d’un sondage face–à–face que nous avons mené en 2016. Pour faire notre échantillon nous avons utilisé la base de données de l’Enquête 123 de l’INS de 2011 qui  renseigne le nombre d’habitants

This Thursday, November 01, 2018, less than two months of the presidential, legislative and provincial elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Study Group on Congo (GEC) based at New York University is publishing its first in a series studies on the current electoral process. The full report is

Aujourd’hui, le Bureau d’Études, de Recherches et de Consulting International (BERCI) et le Groupe d’étude sur le Congo (GEC) de l’Université de New York publient leur premier sondage depuis la publication de la liste définitive des candidats à l’élection présidentielle prévue pour le 23 décembre 2018. Le rapport entier peut être

This week, the Bureau d’Études, de Recherches, et de Consulting International (BERCI) and the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University will be publishing a nationally representative political opinion poll taken in the first week of July 2018. A summary of the results are below; the full report can be

Today, the Congo Research Group (CRG) is releasing  a new report, “Setting fire to  your own house: Crisis in Kasaï, the Manipulation of Customary Power and the Instrumentalization of Disorder.” You can find the web-report here, and download the PDF document here. Since August 2016, the Kasaï region has seen one

In September 2017, the Congolese elections commission (CENI) announced that it was planning to use voting machines for the momentous upcoming elections, currently scheduled for December 23, 2017. This has triggered controversy and fierce opposition from many in Congolese civil society and opposition. In the first of a series of

Today, the Bureau d’Études, de Recherches, et de Consulting International (BERCI) and the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University are publishing a series of nationally representative political opinion polls conducted across the Democratic Republic of the Congo in February 2017, August 2017, November 2017, and January/February 2018. You