Two die in violent Congo protests

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Violent anti-government protests over a delayed presidential ballot expected this year left two people dead and eight wounded on Tuesday in a central Congolese diamond-mining town, police said.

Demonstrators in Mbuji-Mayi set buildings ablaze and torched tires and garbage in the road to protest the government's delay in holding elections, the town's police chief Jean-Diedonne Oleko said.

Elections were supposed to take place on June 30, as mandated by the country's transitional constitution drafted at the end of Congo's 1998-2002 war. However, poor planning and legislative foot dragging has delayed the vote and no new date has been set.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/19/2003255735

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