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Fireworks and bullets as DR Congo election campaign starts
Some 44 million registered voters, out of a population of almost 100 million, will elect a president on December 20. They will also choose between tens of thousands of candidates for legislative and local bodies in the country with vast resources but endemic conflict and corruption. A “pre-campaign” has been underway for a while, with…