Police in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have fired tear gas at opposition protesters who accuse the electoral commission of fraud.<br /><br />The demonstrators accuse President Joseph Kabila's party of rigging polls in his favour by allowing for the multiple registrations of voters ahead of elections in November.<br /><br />The country's electoral commission has admitted that there were 20,000 duplicate registrations on a voter list of some 32 million people.<br /><br />Fears over delays and spiralling costs for the poll are also mounting as much of the election equipment is still abroad and international backers, who played a prominent role in elections in 2006, are taking less interest in this year's poll.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Hazem Sika reports from Kinshasa.
