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Democratic Republic of Congo's Senate on Friday scrapped plans for a national census before 2016 presidential elections, after four days of protests against a move that opposition leaders said was aimed at extending President Joseph Kabila's term.
The opposition said a previous draft of the electoral law, approved by the lower house at the weekend, would have kept Kabila in power for years by delaying elections until a census could be held in the vast and impoverished central African country.
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