This is not good. My Auntie is still in Kinshasa, hoping to catch her for a chat tonight and get the story from someone who has seen so much.


"Just 10 days from a momentous presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a warehouse fire in the capital has severely complicated the country's preparations. The blaze, which broke out around 2 a.m. local time Thursday, destroyed the voting equipment for 19 of Kinshasa's 24 polling stations.

Nearly 80 percent of the capital's voting machines were among the burned materials. In a city of some 13 million people — or over 15 percent of the country's population — the loss has tossed a wrench into the already tense run-up to the Dec. 23 vote."

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/67638145 ... approaches

Voting machines? Canada doesn't use those. We still use paper and pencil... thank the dogs.