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2006-11-18 Africa Subsaharan

(SomaliNet) The Independent Electoral Commission (EC) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a provisional results release announced that incumbent Joseph Kabila has won the presidential election.

Kabila, 35, took 58.05 per cent of the vote in the October 29 run-off, compared with 41.9 per cent for his rival vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, the commission said. Turnout was 65.3 per cent of some 25.4 million eligible voters. Meanwhile, tensions mounted in DRC capital Kinshasa after Bemba's side complained of "systematic errors" in the compiling of figures from around a country almost the size of Western Europe, but with few roads and ruined infrastructure.

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