Congolese authorities continued their crackdown on political dissent, arresting more than a dozen opposition members ahead of tomorrow’s planned demonstrations.

The arrests Thursday night included four members of the “Rassemblement” opposition in Kinshasa and around a dozen others, including some members of the opposition party Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS), in Lubumbashi. Two other UDPS members were arrested by soldiers this afternoon in the Limete neighborhood in Kinshasa.

Earlier on Thursday, police fired tear gas to disperse UDPS opposition party sympathizers as they were distributing leaflets to mobilize people for the protest.

The Rassemblement has called for demonstrations tomorrow to show President Joseph Kabila the “final yellow card,” a soccer reference to serve as a warning a month before the end of his constitutionally mandated two-term limit.

In Kinshasa, officials say the ban on all political demonstrations – announced after the September protests – is still in effect, and authorities in Lubumbashi have also announced that the demonstration there is not authorized.

Following the temporary jamming of the UN-supported radio station Radio Okapi and the complete takedown of Radio France International (RFI) in Kinshasa for now 13 days, the radio signals of RFI in neighboring Brazzaville (which many across the river in Kinshasa can listen to) and the Belgian Radio Television of the French Community (RTBF) have also been jammed since this morning.

These latest measures followed yesterday’s surprise appointment of Samy Badibanga, president of the UDPS and allies parliamentary group, made up of dissident UDPS party members, as prime minister of a new government that is expected to be announced in full in the coming days.