Tense moments ahead of Congo polls amid security crackdown
Congolese National Police arrest a man at Majengo neighbourhood in Goma, North Kivu on December 27, 2018, during a demonstration against the postponement of the election in the troubled region. PHOTO | PATRICK MEINHARDT | AFP
Anxiety has gripped the region as the Democratic Republic of Congo goes to elections in which voters in three regions that have been wracked by violence and Ebola will not vote till later in the New Year.
The elections agency announced midweek that the elections in Beni and Butembo in North Kivu Province and Yumbi in the southwest in Mai-Ndombe Province, where ethnic violence last week claimed more than 100 lives, will be held in March 2019.
