After long strikes DRC sets election in 2018

The  election commission has official announced  the generel election for presidential in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be  23  December 2018 this comes after long struggles from opposition parties to demand to step down sooner this year so as to make a general election due to time frame for the leadership is already to the bar end."We reject the (CENI) calendar... what interests us right now is the departure of Kabila by December 31, 2017," said Augustin Kabuya, spokesperson for the main opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS).The country has seen widespread anger over President Joseph Kabila's refusal to relinquish power after his second full term ended in December 2016. He had taken power after his father was assassinated in 2001, and was elected in 2006 and 2011