Stumble in the jungle

28 November 2018 By Ed Cropley Follow @edwardcropley

Joseph Kabila’s chosen successor is set to win a presidential election due next month. He will remain in the wings, though. For Glencore and others, that offers little relief after a crippling 2018. Worse, it may mean competing power centres that catch miners in the crossfire.

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Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo will go to the polls on Dec. 23 to elect a replacement for Joseph Kabila, who has been president since his father Laurent’s assassination in 2001.

Kabila’s two-term mandate expired two years ago, but elections were delayed due to logistical and financial problems.

The ruling PPRD party’s chosen candidate is Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, a former provincial governor and interior minister.

The European Union imposed an asset freeze and travel ban on Ramazani in May 2017, for his alleged role in human rights abuses.

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