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KINSHASA (Reuters) -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 disputed vote threatens to further destabilise poverty-stricken Congo, which is already grappling with a security crisis in the east that has hampered development in the world's top producer of cobalt and other industrial minerals and metals. Five of President Felix Tshisekedi's challengers in the race called on their supporters to join a march on Wednesday aga...

Democratic Republic of Congo's government on Tuesday banned an opposition protest planned for Wednesday over last week's chaotic national election as early results showed President Felix Tshisekedi in the lead. Five opposition presidential candidates called the joint demonstration in the capital Kinshasa over alleged election irregularities. But on Tuesday the government banned the event, saying it did not have a legal basis and aimed at undermining the electoral process while the CENI election commission was still compiling results.

Western embassies in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa urged restraint on Saturday, after several leading opposition members called this week's election a "sham" and called for protests.In a joint statement, 12 European embassies in the Kinshasa, and the Canadian embassy, have called for all actors to "exercise restraint".

Democratic Republic of Congo voters were waiting on Friday for the first results from presidential and legislative elections after an unscheduled day-long ballot extension that prompted some opposition candidates to cry foul and call for a rerun. The vote will determine whether President Felix Tshisekedi serves a second term after a first five years in office marked by economic hardship and spiralling insecurity in Congo's rebel-plagued east. Voting for some was extended into Thursday, prompting five opposition presidential candidates to call for a new election, saying the extension was...

The European Union and Ukraine have agreed on updated indicative road and railway maps of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) for Ukraine and Moldova, Ukraine's Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development has reported.