Liberia: CDC Supporters Draw First Blood

Hundreds of stone-throwing youths believed to be from the youth league of the governing Congress for Democratic Change chapter in Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County Thursday, 30 July besieged a local hotel in the city, preventing the Chairman of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) Alexander B. Cummings and Montserrado County District#10 Representative Yekeh Kolubah from stepping out to address supporters. Local correspondents on the ground described the situation as very tense, disrupting normal businesses with a bank shutting down.

Mr. Cummings, also leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) and entourage are currently on a tour of southeast Liberia, rallying citizens' support for the CPP in the December 8th midterm senatorial elections. He began the tour over the weekend in his native Maryland County with Rep. Kolubah, where he introduced the CPP senatorial candidate for the pending elections to voters before coming back to Zwedru, Grand Gedeh.

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