Congo begins voting in long-delayed presidential election - REUTERSKINSHASA - 30 December 2018: People in Congo have begun voting in a long-delayed presidential election that could bring the troubled country's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power.Some unrest is feared in the election after a last-minute decision to bar an estimated 1 million people from voting because of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the east. Some Congolese observers have said voting materials didn't reach some polling stations in time.At stake is a country rich in minerals including those crucial to the world's smartphones and electric cars, and yet Congo remains desperately underdeveloped. Corruption and insecurity are widespread.In the capital, Kinshasa, at the Institut de la Gombe polling station in the center of the city, a few people began to vote. This station is where the ruling party's candidate, Shadary, and Kabila, are expected to vote. There is a poster at the entrance explaining how to use the electronic voting machines.

Source: Egypt Today December 30, 2018 05:15 UTC