All eyes on DR Congo elections amid tension

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Incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi delivers a speech during his campaign rally in Goma, capital of North Kivu Province, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on December 10, 2023. PHOTO | AFP

That the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is due to hold elections on December 20 is not in doubt. What is in doubt, a week to those polls, is whether the country is ready to hold elections in every corner of the republic on that day. 

And that forms part of the reasons the presidential elections, especially, are important to the Congolese and foreigners alike.