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Monday, August 1, 2016
In the DRC capital of Kinshasa, tens of thousands of Congolese took to the streets demanding Joseph Kabila step down as president in November. Kabila has been in power since his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, was assassinated in 2001.
The younger Kabila has been under extreme pressure to step aside and call elections to choose a successor.
Kabila’s government has said logistical problems are likely to delay the poll and his supporters have suggested a referendum scrapping term limits so he can run again, as several other African leaders have done. He retains a solid level of support.
His opponents, however, suspect Kabila is simply trying to cling on to power.
“We’re sick of Kabila,” Philippe Lukusa an unemployed demonstrator was cited as saying in a Reuters report. The people in the streets want opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi as their leader. A favorite of the citizens of the DRC, Tshisekedi’s supporters lined the streets for miles when he returned home after almost two years in Belgium for medical treatment.
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