Explainer - What's at stake in Congo's presidential election?


  • World
  • Tuesday, 18 Dec 2018

FILE PHOTO: Supporters are seen while Vital Kamerhe, leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) party, with Felix Tshisekedi, leader of Congolese main opposition the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) party and presidential candidate, arrive at N'djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo November 27, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo

DAKAR (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo will vote on Dec. 23 in a long-delayed election that could enable the vast Central African country's first democratic transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.

President Joseph Kabila is due to step down after 18 years in the office he inherited from his assassinated father, and two years after his constitutional mandate officially expired.

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