launched a new pro-democracy campaign to press President Joseph Kabila to step down.

They’re calling it the bye bye Kabila and say it will spark massive anti-government protests.

President Joseph  Kabila’s second and last term comes to an end on 19 December.

Voters were due to go to the polls next week to elect his successor.

However government’s  brokered  a political deal with one faction of the opposition that postponed the election until April 2018.

A coalition of pro-democracy movements rejects this deal and launched a “Bye-Bye Kabila” campaign to pile up pressure on the president in the run-up to the December deadline.

This could lead to fresh deadly clashes with security forces. Last September, a crack-down on an anti-government protest left at least 50 dead.

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