By Rédaction Africanews with AFP |Congo police fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a protest by opposition supporters in the capital Kinshasa calling for a re-run of last week’s chaotic presidential and legislative elections. The demonstration against the electoral process had been banned by the authorities, AFP earlier reported. It “aims to undermine the electoral process, the government of the Republic cannot accept this,” he declared. Partial results of the presidential election place the outgoing head of state, Félix Tshisekedi , well in the lead, with some 79% of the votes. Tensions are feared when the winner of the presidential election is announced, in a country with a turbulent and often violent political history, with a subsoil immensely rich in minerals but with a predominantly poor population.
