Jean-Pierre Bemba will not run for DRC's presidential election

Democratic Republic of Congo's top court said on Monday it had definitively excluded opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from December's presidential election because of a witness tampering conviction at the International Criminal Court.

Bemba, a former vice president, and warlord finished second to President Joseph Kabila in a 2006 election that sparked deadly clashes between Bemba's supporters and state troops in the streets of the capital Kinshasa.

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