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 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Thousands returned to the polls in a northeast Congo town Thursday and recast ballots destroyed in rioting that followed the weekend presidential runoff, officials said.
The vote in Fataki, a small town in restive Ituri province, completed voting countrywide in an election that was four years in the making and culminated a transition meant to usher Congo out of years of war and corrupt misrule.
The repeat vote allowed about 22,000 people to cast ballots after theirs were burned by rioters Monday, one day after the runoff between President Joseph Kabila and rival Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, said local electoral official Aristotle Maki.
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