PROTESTERS attacked an Ebola centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo today, with growing anger over the handling of Sunday’s elections.

The attack happened in the eastern city of Beni, an opposition stronghold which is one of three areas in which voting has been postponed as the country chooses a successor to President Joseph Kabila.

Polls will take place in March in Beni, along with Butembo and Yumbi, which are in the west of the country.

Opposition groups accused authorities of rigging the vote with more than a million people believed to be excluded from tomorrow’s poll. 

European Union ambassador Bart Ouvry was given 48 hours to leave the country, with the government angry at renewed sanctions against Congolese officials.

Mr Kabila denies accusations that the delayed vote and exclusions are an attempt to cling on to power and insists that such moves are lawful.

“Don’t worry, the law has catered for such issues,” he told the BBC. “I don’t think there will be any major issues, in as far as the one-point-something million voters that you are talking about.”

The president is standing down after 17 years in power – two years later than scheduled – and has backed former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary in the election.