31-12-2017 01:53 via yahoo.com

Congo launches deadly crackdown on anti-president protests

Congolese security forces shot dead a man and injured several others Sunday in a bloody crackdown on Catholic worshippers who gathered at churches across the country to demand President Joseph Kabila leave power.AFP reporters witnessed the latest of several recent outbreaks of bloodshed in the vast, mineral-rich central African country, wracked by tension over delayed elections.An AFP reporter at a demonstration in the central city of Kananga saw a man shot in the chest by soldiers who opened fi
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