Voters in Beni and Butembo, towns in northeastern DR Congo ravaged by conflict and an Ebola epidemic, took part in long-delayed elections on Sunday.
Parliamentary and municipal polls also took place in the western Yumbi region some 300 kilometres north of the capital Kinshasa, three months after a massacre claimed at least 535 civilian lives.
Voting was proceeding smoothly in the Mavivi and Ngadi districts of Beni that have seen frequent unrest involving armed militias, according to an AFP correspondent on the ground.But they are not eligible to vote in the presidential election, three months after veteran opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi won that election, the country’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.
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