For the third day running, violence has erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo as police clashed with demonstrators denouncing electoral reforms. <br /><br /> More than 40 people have died in the protests, according to the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) group – that is three times the official estimate. <br /><br /> The unrest has hit the capital Kinshasa and Goma, the main city in the east.<br /><br /> President Joseph Kabila is constitutionally barred from standing for a third term in an election scheduled for next year.<br /><br /> Protesters are angry at a law that would require a national census be carried out before the poll, a move that could delay it by years thus allowing the president to put off standing down.<br /><br /> As the situation deteriorates, the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Laurent Monsengwo, has condemned the electoral reform moves and told the authorities ‘stop killing your people’.
