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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kaamil Ahmed and Patrice Citera in Kinshasa

Questions over DRC election remain as voting is extended into second day

Four men seated at a table in what might be a school classroom counting votes, with a crowd of people looking in at the window
Ballots being counted in Kinshasa on Thursday. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex Shutterstock

Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been left with more questions over the credibility of this week’s presidential election, amid fresh accusations of irregularities, as voting came to an end on an unplanned second day of balloting.

An observer mission formed by two church bodies, the Episcopal Conference of the Congo and the Church of Christ in the Congo, reported that 11% of voting machines had been set up at military schools, contrary to election law, according to reports from the local news site Actualite.cd.

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