Meanwhile, Police have fired tear gas and shots were heard as hundreds of people in
Demonstrations erupted a day after the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national election commission announced that Sunday’s nationwide vote would be postponed in several troubled areas until March.
However, the vote will continue to take place in the rest of the country as scheduled, and the next president will be sworn in on January 18.
Sunday’s election will be the DRC’s first presidential ballot in seven years. Legislative and municipal elections are being held at the same time.