US sends troops for possible 'violent' Congo vote protests
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) ” On the eve of the first expected results of Congo’s long-delayed presidential election, U.S. President Donald Trump said military personnel had deployed to the region for possible “violent demonstrations,” while the country’s powerful Catholic church warned of a popular “uprising” if untrue results are announced.Congo faces what could be its first democratic, peaceful transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960, but election observers and the […]
