DRC Tensions Continue Despite Regional Backing of Election Delay

Central African heads of state meeting Wednesday in Luanda, Angola, endorsed the deal signed last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo that delays that country's elections by nearly two years.  But the regional stamp of approval has not diminished tensions in the country itself. The African Union-mediated agreement pushes elections in the DRC from next month to April 2018.  President Joseph Kabila will stay on until then at the head of a new power-sharing government,...

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