Voters wade through floodwater at a polling station during the presidential election in Kinshasa, Congo, on Sunday. The election presents this enormous country with its first chance at a peaceful, democratic transfer of power since its independence from Belgium in 1960. But voters in the Limete neighborhood, an opposition stronghold, were still waiting in the soaking rain three hours after polls opened because voting rolls hadn’t yet arrived. The candidates could not reach an agreement, and only the election commissioner and Kabila’s chosen successor, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, ended up signing. In Limete, which leans heavily toward Tshisekedi, voters promised to remain peaceful but only if voters’ rolls showed up soon.

Source: Washington Post December 30, 2018 05:03 UTC