Congo's Catholic bishops and US demand release of accurate election results

A prominent church group in the Democratic Republic of Congo suggested that it knows the winner of the December 30 vote to pick a successor for President Joseph Kabila, and called on the country's electoral commission to release the results "without delay."

The Catholic Bishops' National Episcopal Conference of the Congo (CENCO) did not name the winner, but said in a statement Thursday that "data in its possession, extracted from vote counting reports from polling stations, designates the selection of one candidate as president."

CENCO said it had sent observers to polling stations and demanded that the country's National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) to publish the result of Sunday's vote, which has been delayed from 2016, in the "respect of truth and justice."Read More...