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Presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba gestures at his supporters during a rally at Kinshasa, Congo, Thursday, July 27, 2006. The Congolese election is shaping up along ethnic and regional lines, giving a former rebel the advantage in the west even though he spent most of his childhood in Belgium and is dogged by allegations of wartime atrocities and profiteering. Election results were trickling in from the historic July 30 balloting, but too slowly to point to a winner. They do show President Joseph Kabila doing well in the east, where he was born. His main rival, vice president and former rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba was expected to do well in Kinshasa and elsewhere in the west, where he is embraced as a regional son. The two could be headed for a run-off. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)