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DR Congo Police Fire Teargas to Quell Protests Over Election Delay in East

by Our Reporter
December 27, 2018
DR Congo Police Fire Teargas to Quell Protests Over Election Delay in East

Protesters marching on the streets of Beni.

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GOMA – Police and security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) fired live rounds and teargas to disperse protesters in Goma and Beni against a decision to exclude them from the presidential election on Sunday.

On Wednesday, the election commission cited the Ebola outbreak and frequent attacks by militias in its decision to put off the presidential and parliamentary elections in Butembo and Beni in the east, as well as the rural area surrounding Beni until March 2019.

In Manjengo district, a neighborhood of Goma, protesters burned tyres, erected barricades to stop traffic while police anti- riot gear fired tear-gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Protests also erupted in Beni, where hundreds of angry youth demonstrated in front of Ebola response headquarters and demanded that electoral commission recede their decision.

Witnesses said some angry protesters attacked Ebola centres in Beni.

These areas are strongholds of opposition to the outgoing president, Joseph Kabila, opposition politicians have claimed.

Protesters denounced the electoral commission and said the delay was politically motivated and meant to deny some Congolese, an opportunity to vote Kabila’s regime out of power. The protesters sang anti-government songs.

Arsene Mwaka, a lawmaker told this website it was unfair and a frustrating decision for the people who live in these areas to be deprived of their most legitimate rights to elect a president of their choice and other representatives.

Members of the opposition say the delay will disenfranchise almost 1.2 million voters in the regions, which are known as strongholds of the current president’s critics, because the presidential outcome will be announced before those votes are even cast.

Polls in the western district of Yumbi, where more than 100 people were killed in inter-community violence last week, will also be delayed.

The delay means the voters in the affected regions won’t participate in the election of the new president because the vote will go ahead in the rest of the country on Sunday as planned.

The polls were supposed to take place on Dec. 23 but were pushed back by a week after a fire on Dec. 13 in the capital, Kinshasa, burnt election materials.

Meanwhile opposition candidate Fayulu has called for protests across the country tomorrow, Friday.

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