Congo to Name Next President by End of Year, Commission Says
- Despite major challenges, election was ‘generally calm’: AU
- At least 19 dead in campaign period, Carter Center says
A voter marks his ballot in a voting booth in Goma on Dec. 21.
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Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission will begin broadcasting results of the country’s Dec. 20 poll on Friday with the intention of announcing the next president by the end of the year.
Despite major delays delivering voting material that postponed balloting in some places by more than a day, the election was “generally calm,” observers from the African Union told reporters Friday in the capital, Kinshasa.