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By Nicholas Bariyo
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters near the capital on Tuesday, as security was tightened following violent protests over a proposed law that could delay next year's election and extend President Joseph Kabila's stay in power.
The demonstrators were confronted by police as they marched from Kinshasa University to the parliament building about nine miles away, where the country's Senate was debating the legislation, Information Minister Lambert Mende said.
By late Tuesday, the demonstrations had fizzled out, witnesses said, as police succeeded in blocking protesters from reaching the city center and Parliament, where debate on the proposed law continued.
Kinshasa, especially key government buildings and the airport, has been draped in heavy security since the clashes between government forces and protesters on Monday that left two police officers and another person dead. Mr. Mende said the government had the situation under control, adding that a couple thousand protesters "cannot topple any government."
Authorities ordered all telecommunications operators late Monday to switch off the Internet and messaging services as Mr. Kabila battled to prevent antigovernment protests from swelling.
"All DRC mobile operators and Internet service providers received an order from the DRC authorities' [Monday] afternoon to suspend Internet services," Richard Boorman, the spokesman for South Africa-based Vodacom Group Ltd. told The Wall Street Journal. "All companies complied."
An official in Congo's far eastern North Kivu province said the suspension was permitted under the country's telecommunications law. The official said the measure has helped prevent opposition leaders from rallying more protesters.
Protesters in North Africa and the Middle East have used social media to rally mass protests that toppled several regimes across the region.
As the streets of Kinshasa simmered, controversy continued over Monday's antigovernment protests, which flared as far east as the city of Goma, on Congo's border with Rwanda.
Martin Fayulu, a protest leader, said police in the capital fired live rounds to disperse the throngs of protesters, which some human-rights activists estimated at 5,000 people. He denied assertions by Mr. Mende and other government officials that some of the demonstrators were armed and that some security forces opened fire only quell rioting and stop looting.
Security forces sealed off offices of several political parties to prevent opposition leaders from joining the protests. They also blocked demonstrators from entering the Senate chamber and presidential palace and made dozens of arrests, according to witnesses.
Mr. Fayulu and other critics of the government are angry over what they view as the president's attempts to prolong his rule. Under the country's constitution, he is required to step down next year at the end of his second and final five-year term in office.
Congo's lower house of parliament, dominated by Mr. Kabila's allies, on Saturday approved the legislation that would, if approved, require a national census before presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for early next year. Such a survey in this impoverished country of 77 million people would take as long as a year, government officials said.
Mr. Kabila's opponents see such moves as a possible prelude for an attempt to amend the constitution to allow Mr. Kabila another term as president.
"We are determined to make sure that Kabila doesn't remove term limits from our constitution" said Mr. Fayulu, president of the opposition Engagement for Citizenship and Development party. "We shall keep pressing until he goes."
Mr. Mende, the information minister, denied any such intent. He said a population census would help the government organize a more credible election.
Mr. Kabila was 29 years old when his father, Laurent, was assassinated and he succeeded him as president. From eastern Congo the elder Kabila had led an uprising, supported by neighboring Uganda and Rwanda, that toppled longtime ruler Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997.
Joseph Kabila spent those years of rebellion in Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda and never learned Lingala, Congo's main language. After his father seized power, he appointed his son as head of the military.
The United Nations, which has a peacekeeping force in eastern Congo, urged Mr. Kabila's government to honor the schedule for elections and adhere to the constitution, saying the unrest underlines "the need for a credible, peaceful, timely and inclusive electoral process, in accordance with the tenets of the constitution."
Heidi Vogt contributed to this article.
Write to Nicholas Bariyo at nicholas.bariyo@wsj.com
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