[AFRICAN POLITICS, DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY] IS IT ANOTHER AFRICAN HARMATTAN IN THE MAKING LIKE BURKINA FASO: QUOTE Gunshots were heard on Wednesday as police cracked down on a new student demonstration at Kinshasas university following two days of bloody violence in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an AFP reporter said. Twenty eight people have been killed since Monday in anti-government protests, according to a local human rights organisation. The authorities put the death toll at five. Protesters oppose a draft law that would enable President Joseph Kabila to extend his stay in power beyond his current mandate which ends in 2016. Two shots rang out as dozens of students shouting Kabila get out! faced off against a small group of police officers. In the Ndjili neighbourhood, youths destroyed a police vehicle. Dying regime This morning were working all out again because there is a students protest at the university, police spokesman Israel Mutumbo said. We are in the process of checking across the city because there are little groups [of possible demonstrators] forming. On Tuesday, hundreds of youths torched a town hall in Ngaba, a southern neighbourhood of Kinshasa, while several prisoners escaped from a neighbouring building. Looters also made off with police guns stored at the site. Anti-government protesters block a road and burn tires during a protest against a new law that could delay elections to be held in 2016, in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (John Bompengo, AP)
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:35:55 +0000
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