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KINSHASA/GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo has extended elections into Thursday for those whose polling stations did not open on Wednesday, prompting a group of opposition presidential candidates to call for a rerun of the chaotic vote.
Two candidates running for parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Dec. 20 general election were killed in separate incidents on Friday, as a rights group warned in a report on Saturday that electoral violence risks undermining the vote. A candidate for the ruling coalition in the South Kivu province in the eastern Congo region was killed by unknown gunmen while he was returning from a campaign event on Friday evening, a regional government official told Reuters. Another ruling coalition candidate in Beni, in the North Kivu province, also in eastern Congo, died from gunshot wounds late on Friday night after his campaign convoy was ambushed, Jeremie Muhindo, director of the Beni hospital, told Reuters.
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Two candidates running for parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Dec. 20 general election were killed in separate incidents on Friday, as a rights group warned in a report on Saturday that electoral violence risks undermining the vote.
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Two candidates running for parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Dec. 20 general election we.