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 MBUJI-MAYI, Congo (AP) - Dozens of polling stations reopened Monday in Congo's second-largest city, offering citizens stymied by violence during their nation's historic elections another chance to vote.
Authorities opened 174 polling stations amid stepped-up security in the central Congo's diamond-mining city of Mbuji-Mayi, where stations and voting materials were burned Sunday by people believed to be supporters of veteran politician Etienne Tshisekedi, said Hubert Tisuaka, an election official.
The European Union, Congo's former colonial ruler, Belgium, and other nations said isolated violence had not kept the elections from being free and democratic.
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