Police have rounded up suspects after two days of anti-government riots that saw people burned alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The opposition claims that over 100 people died during the violence.
President Joseph Kabila accused his opposition of trying to incite "bloody riots" in a statement on Wednesday night. He also called for calm and expressed condolences to the victims killed in the clashes on the streets of Kinshasa.
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