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 MBUJI-MAYI, Congo (AP) - Polls opened for an extra day Monday in central Congo but it appeared that few took advantage of the second chance to vote in what officials said was a massive boycott called by one candidate.
Electoral officials backed by riot police faced down stone-throwing boycotters to reopen polling stations in the area where many had stayed away in Sunday's election, apparently heeding the boycott call.
Authorities protected by truckloads of armed police had intended to reopen 174 of the 1,041 polling stations in central Congo Monday, said Hubert Tisuaka, an election official. But by the end of the day, it was not clear how many stations had actually opened.
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