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Huge crowd in Kinshasa for Bemba return, police using teargas
KINSHASA, Aug 1, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Police fired rounds of teargas in Kinshasa on Wednesday as tens of thousands of people turned out to welcome DR Congo former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba on his return home, an AFP reporter saw.
Police fired around 10 rounds of teargas on Lumumba Boulevard, one of the city’s main roads. The crowd is the largest politically-related gathering in two years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, whose president, Joseph Kabila, has cracked down on protests.
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