Early voter registration in DRC marred by kit shortages
Al JazeeraThe elections are scheduled for December 2023, despite spiralling insecurity in the east, spearheaded by the M23 rebels. Almost 50 million people across the vast Central African nation’s 26 provinces are expected to register to vote over the next three months.nHowever, registration opened in the first 10 provinces on Saturday morning to long lines and undersupplied stations. They should have postponed instead of setting a date and then doing nothing when people arrive,” said medical student Mike Tshamala, waiting with a dozen others at a registration point in central Kinshasa. “It’s like a car, you start … in first gear, you don’t go directly to third gear,” CENI Chairman Denis Kadima said after signing up in Kinshasa on Saturday. Insecurity has spiralled in the DRC’s volatile east since the M23 rebel group, which authorities accuse neighbouring Rwanda of backing, staged a major offensive in March this year.
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