28.11.2011, 17:12
Zitat:DR Congo votes amid delays and violence<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15910554">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15910554</a><!-- m -->
Voters in DR Congo are choosing their leaders in elections marred by violence and logistical difficulties. At least four people have died after gunmen attacked polling stations in the second city, Lubumbashi, officials say. Voting has been delayed in some areas because of a lack of ballot papers in polls contested by President Joseph Kabila and 10 other candidates. [...]
It is the second election since the end of successive wars which left some four million people dead. [...] Election officials have been scrambling to get ballot papers distributed to all 60,000 of the polling stations in this vast country which has very little transport infrastructure. In many inaccessible areas, voting material was delivered by helicopter. Despite calls for the election to be delayed to give time to improve the preparations, election officials said on Sunday that everything was 99% ready.
Schneemann.