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(30 Dec 2018) Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, voted on Sunday in a long-delayed presidential election that could bring the troubled country's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power.
Two main opposition candidates, Martin Fayulu and Felix Tshisekedi, are challenging Kabila's preferred successor, the European Union-sanctioned former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's 40 million registered voters are using voting machines for the first time amid opposition concerns that the results could be manipulated.
Some unrest is feared after a last-minute decision to bar an estimated one million people from voting because of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the east.
The decision has been widely criticised as threatening the credibility of the election.

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