The election will mark Congo’s first transfer of power at the ballot box since independence from Belgium in 1960, after decades of coups, dictatorship, assassinations and civil wars.
Uchaguzi huo utakuwa wa kwanza wa Kongo kukabidhi madaraka kwenye sanduku la kura tangu uhuru wake kutoka kwa Ubelgiji mwaka 1960, baada ya miongo kadhaa ya mapinduzi, udikteta, mauaji na vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe.