<span style="color: #222222;">People in Congo have begun voting in a long-delayed presidential election that could bring the troubled country's first peaceful, democratic transfer of power. 40 million voters of the country are using electronic voting machines for the first time to vote for a successor to President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Some unrest is feared in the election after a last-minute decision to bar an estimated 1 million people from voting because of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the country's east.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Two main opposition candidates, Martin Fayulu and Felix Tshisekedi, are challenging President Joseph Kabila's preferred successor, former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, who is under sanctions from the European Union.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The current president took over from his assassinated father Laurent in 2001, but he is barred from running for another term under the constitution.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was supposed to step down two years ago, but the election was postponed after the electoral commission said it needed more time to register voters.</span><br />