At least 30 people have been killed and 16 others injured in a bus accident in Congo.

Congo’s opposition leader has declared himself winner of the presidential vote, despite coming second in official election results.

Police in Congo’s capital prowled opposition neighbourhoods, rounding up young men who were seen being dragged out of their homes and shoved into waiting cars, a day after the government announced that the country’s opposition leader had lost the disputed presidential election.

Congo’s President Joseph Kabila has won another term in office with 49% of the 18.14 million votes cast according to provisional results published by Congo’s election commission.

Riot police in Kinshasa, Congo, fired tear gas grenades to break up a protest today by hundreds of opposition party members demanding to take part in an election their leader had once wanted to boycott.