This is an unusual blog, written solely to say that there’s nothing to say. Nothing.
We’ve been sitting around all week waiting for the big bang, when the anger being felt deeply by the people of Kinshasa about the election results will boil over. And what has happened? Nothing.
When anyone meets anyone else, the question is always the same: “What have you heard?” The answer is “Nothing”.
One by one electoral observers issue their reports. None of them say that Kabila didn’t win, but all of them say the results must be challenged: there are too many flaws for them to be allowed to stand as they are. But even though outrage is notched up a bit more each time a new report is issued, what happens? Nothing.
If you ask people who consider themselves closely linked to the opposition what they’re going to do about the election, which almost everyone has admitted was deeply flawed, they say nothing except “wait and see.”
Meanwhile, the elaborate plans to have military escorts for people who need to go to the airport have been shelved. The same security types who supervised evacuations are leaving for Christmas, because there’s nothing for them to do. Nothing.
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