Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary

The parties should focus on winning seats in Parliament and at other levels of government

The DRC’s former president has his eye on a long-term goal — to become of member of the Class of 2034 of lifelong leaders

Martin Fayulu has appealed to the Constitutional Court to annul the provisional result which awarded victory to his opposition rival Felix Tshisekedi

The president-elect of the DRC says he will be the people’s president

Since his father founded the UDPS in 1982, the party has served as an opposition mainstay in the DRC

The country is in flux over a thrice-delayed presidential vote

Opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu earlier on Tuesday warned electoral authorities ‘not to disguise the truth of the polls’

The December 30 vote saw 21 candidates run to replace President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the vast, conflict-ridden country for almost 18 years

Twenty-one candidates are contending the presidential elections

The vote crowns two years of turmoil, sharpening worries that the fragile giant of central Africa may once more spiral into violence

Subsistence diggers scraping a living outside the mining capital of Lubumbashi say they hope the long-delayed poll will bring political change

Twenty-one candidates are running to replace Kabila, whose hand-picked successor Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary is one of the front-runners

The president who overstayed his mandate by two years does not rule out seeking the top job again after a break

At stake in the vote is political stewardship of a mineral-rich country that has never known a peaceful transition of power since independence

With little over a month to go, the Congolese opposition is in disarray