Congo’s Kabila Calls for Voter Registration, Warns of Meddling
- Voter registrations, talks may postpone election due late-2016
- Opposition accuse president of delaying vote to retain power
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president called for the start of a voter registration process, a step that may delay elections due later this year, and warned other nations against interfering in the country’s politics.
“It must be remembered, once again, that Congo is a sovereign nation,” President Joseph Kabila said Wednesday in an address broadcast on national television on the eve of Congo’s Independence Day. He warned of “untimely and illicit foreign interventions in the internal political affairs of our country,” without giving further details.