Residents of Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo register for voting on February 16, 2023. Eight months to the definitive presidential election in the DRC, the exact number of candidates or actual contenders is not yet known PHOTO | GUERCHOM NDEBO | AFP
Eight months to the definitive presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the exact number of candidates or actual contenders is not yet known. With the election set for December 20, President Felix Tshisekedi may well know that his biggest opponent is the insecurity in the east.
Not that the instability there is his making. Here is a region that hasn’t known true peace for the past 30 years. From UN estimates, as many as 120 armed groups roam the three provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri.
