Since the beginning of 2014, electoral fever in the DRC has been on the rise, although presidential elections aren't scheduled before the end of 2016.
Joseph Kabila is in the middle of his second and constitutionally his last mandate as president of the Third Republic. In January 2001, in the middle of the war, he succeeded his father who had been assassinated by a body guard in his own palace.
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