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 BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Getting the vote to this eastern Congo town means conquering jungle and coping without phones or banks to pay poll workers. And then there are the militiamen running rampant across this lawless corner of a vast nation just emerging from civil war.
On July 30, Congo is joining the slow but steady spread of democracy in Africa by electing its leader for the first time since 1960, but it faces a logistical nightmare.
"In many countries you have logistic, security or communication problems," said Ali Diabacte, chief of the U.N.'s electoral division in Congo. "But in Congo we have to deal with all of these problems at once."
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