Congo orders telecoms shutdown during presidential vote

Congo Republic's government has ordered the country's two largest telecommunications providers to block all communications during a presidential election on Sunday and again on Monday, a government source said on Saturday. The decision, which the source said was taken for reasons of security, will cause inconvenience and possible alarm in a country where there are few landlines and many rely on cell phone communication. "The Minister of the Interior indeed signed and sent a letter to ... MTN Con