DR Congo – Is it a miracle?

by Mark Doyle

When I heard that the losing candidate in the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean Pierre Bemba, had accepted defeat, I realised I would have to eat some words.
“It would be a miracle,” I reported several times for the BBC on visits to DR Congo during the first and second rounds of voting, “if these polls are pulled off successfully”.

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