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![[DRC] People queue to cast their votes at the polling station at St Anne Cathedral in Kinshasa, DRC, 30 July 2006. Voters took part in the first multiparty general election since 1960. Thousands of Congolese nationals living in Burundi began crossing the](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/20067312.jpg.webp?itok=_vaT7B1y "Tensions rise as Congolese, like these voters on 30 July, anxiously await preliminary election results due this weekend.")
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