Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Supporters of the president of the DRC and leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress party, Felix Tshisekedi, cheer during a campaign rally at Place Sainte Therese in the Ndjili district. Forty-four million people are registered to vote in the presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections scheduled for 20 December in the central African nation of about 100 million people

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