DR Congo: Elections looming, amid worsening insecurity

With just nine days to go for the Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the situation is one of progress in the electoral process on one hand and escalating insecurity on the other the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country said on Monday.

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DR Congo: Elections looming, amid worsening insecurity

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