Southern Africa: Decisive Leadership Needed From SADC to Address DRC Crisis

16 March 2018
opinion

The announcement of a date for general elections in a country roiled in political conflict and ruled by an unpopular leader should be regarded as a positive move. But not so in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For Congolese, it is difficult to anticipate and plan for an election when they do not know if the incumbent President Joseph Kabila would run again despite term limit restrictions. Or if it is not certain that the vote would go ahead after previous broken promises of a scheduled vote. It gets even harder if Kabila's regime continues to violently repress any opposition in the lead-up to the ballot.

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