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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Democratic Republic of Congo opposition presidential casts his ballot in the general elections, at a polling center in Kinshasa. IMAGES
Moise Katumbi, considered the main challenger of President Felix Tshisekedi, votes in the DR Congo general elections at a polling center in Lubumbashi. IMAGES
Supporters eagerly await the arrival of the incumbent presidential candidate Felix Tshisekedi for his final rally, in Kinshasa, on the last official day of campaigning in Dr Congo. An estimated 44 million voters are expected to cast their ballot in the presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections on 20 december, in the vast and impoverished central African nation of about 100 million people. IMAGES
Images show people arriving to Kinshasa's Martyrs Stadium, as Pope Francis continues his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The 86-year-old Argentine pontiff is to meet youngsters at the 80,000-capacity stadium before meeting Jesuit leaders and priests on the front line of the church's work in the vast country, which has Africa's biggest Catholic contingent. IMAGES
Beni (DR Congo), Jun 27 (EFE / EPA).- A person died this Sunday after a second bomb exploded in the city of Beni, northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hours after the first occurred explosion in a Catholic church in the same town, local authorities reported.FOOTAGE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE BOMBS IN BENI, DR CONGO.