Angola seeks smooth exit for Kabila in DRCongo

Angola said Wednesday that a date must be set for presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo that will allow a smooth handover of power from President Joseph Kabila. Angola and France will be leading a Security Council visit to the DR Congo next week to meet with Kabila, opposition leaders and civil society in a bid to ease tensions over the holding of the vote. "I want the elections to be set, to be done orderly and then let someone else continue to run the country," Angola's Ambassador Ismael Gaspar Martins told reporters.

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