For the second successive year the country’s the worst affected by conflict displacement.

The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Ulrika Blom describes what’s happening  in the DRC as a mega crisis.

She says it’s a race against time to save the four million people displaced in the DRC and the seven million struggling to feed themselves.

New fighting between militias, the renewal of existing battles  and the delay in elections is displacing more people in the DRC than in Syria, Yemen or Iraq.

The Norwegian body’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre says 5 500 people have fled their homes in the DRC every day this year.

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Several people have died in the DRC protesting against any delay, arguing that its amounts to President Joseph Kabila clinging to power.

Foreign policy chief  Maite Nkoane Mshebane says the DRC is engaged  in an unprecedented political process.

Since the removal of Mobutu Sese Seko more than 20 years ago, the DRC has never had local or provincial government elections.

In registering new voters Congolese authorities say they’ve discovered about eight million people who’ve  have reached the voting age but are not on the voters’ roll.

There is also the inter-Congolese dialogue that all parties have agreed to.

“If that means the DRC government delaying elections, it would be supported by us. We cannot determine the date of another country’s elections,” said the South African foreign minister

South Africa played a key role in negotiating the inclusive political settlement in post Mobutu DRC.

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