Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Officials Warn of Chaos in DRC If President Kabila Declines to Surrender Power

New York — Senior US officials have warned that the Democratic Republic of Congo could be hit by violence worse than Burundi's if President Joseph Kabila does not surrender power later this year.

"A political crisis is building as the DRC prepares -- or rather fails to prepare -- for upcoming, historic elections scheduled for this November," Ambassador Thomas Perriello, President Obama's special envoy to the Great Lakes told the congress on February 10, 2016.

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