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 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's incumbent president has won a tense runoff, nearly complete election results showed Tuesday. He now has to make order out of the chaos that long has plagued a country bursting with natural resources and former warlords.
First Joseph Kabila, 35, must placate rival Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel leader whose fighters have clashed with his in downtown Kinshasa twice over election results.
Bemba's supporters issued a bellicose statement Tuesday saying their count gave Bemba a lead of more than 52 percent, which would mean he had won, and calling the official vote count an "electoral holdup."
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