UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Outgoing Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila pledged at the United Nations on Tuesday that "peaceful, credible" elections would be held in his country as planned at the end of the year.
Kabila has ruled since his father's assassination in 2001. He agreed last month not to defy term limits by running for re-election, opening the door to the Central African nation's first democratic transfer of power.
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