Congo voters cast ballots in election delayed for 2 years

Voters lined up to pick a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the central African country since 2001. Sunday’s vote would have marked the country’s first-ever democratic transfer of power, but an electoral commission’s decision to delay voting in three opposition strongholds has all but guaranteed contested results.

Kabila has ruled Congo for nearly two decades. He came to power at 29 and amid crisis after the assassination of his father in 2001.