Demonstrations have torn the central African giant where polls have been closed to more than million voters  because of the EBOLA outbreak, military actions against rebels and ethnic violence.

Sunday’s election in the DRC should produce the first democratic change of president since the nation’s independence from Belgium in 1960. 

UN boss Antonio Guterres calls it an opportunity to consolidate the DRC’s democratic institutions.

He calls on the authorities, political leaders, election officials and civil society to avoid taking any provocative  action and to show maximum retrain to enable the more than 40 million voters peacefully to cast their ballots.

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They’re saying it would be impossible to hold a credible process  in these areas because of insecurity and the EBOLA outbreak.

The opposition’s calling it another strategy to hijack the truth of the poll.

The areas where the vote has been further delayed are Beni and Butembo at the epicenter of the EBOLA outbreak in the east of the DRC and Yumbi in the west , where 100 people died in ethnic clashes last week.

The move by the electoral commission means the votes of  more than a million of the country’s 46 electors will not be considered in the results to be announced next month.

Beni and Butembo are considered opposition bastions.

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