Congo authorities eye victory as candidates launch election campaigns
DRC government spokesperson Lambert Mende. Congolese authorities are eyeing victory as candidates launch election campaigns for the December 23, 2018 vote. PHOTO | AFP
Candidates launched their campaigns on Thursday for a December 23 election that could usher in the first democratic transfer of power in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the vast country since his father’s assassination in 2001, is backing his former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary in the presidential race against a fractured opposition.
