US Offers Congo $30 Million for Upcoming Elections

The United States is prepared to help fund aid for stability and democracy-building efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the U.S. wants assurances President Joseph Kabila will step down at the end of his current term in office. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a private meeting with Kabila Sunday in Kinshasa to urge the president to follow the constitution in the upcoming elections, which would prohibit the president from running for a third consecutive term in 2016. It...

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