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Congo Kinshasa

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi

Date of Birth: 3 June 1963
Place of Birth: Kinshasa


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Prosecutors arrest bigwigs

Vital Kamerhe President Félix Tshisekedi's chief of staff spent Easter in Kinshasa's notorious Makala prison following his arrest and detention without bail last week...


The Kabila Strain

Then on 18 March President Félix Tshisekedi announced flight restrictions to close the country off from Europe and the Middle East...


Clash of the kings

This reflects the national clash between President Félix Tshisekedi and his predecessor Joseph Kabila over control of the money and security agencies...


More trickle-down please

The coalition of the Cap pour le changement (CACH) alliance led by President Félix Tshisekedi and ex-President Joseph Kabila's Front commun pour le Congo (FCC) is unhappy and unharmonious...


Pouring cold water on the mega dam

Félix Tshisekedi's arrival in the presidential palace has brought new complications to Inga III the gargantuan planned hydroelectric dam on the Congo River but may yet give the long-delayed project a refreshed sense of direction...

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Of puppets and godfathers

'I am not a puppet' President Félix Tshisekedi keeps insisting most recently to the Belgian government and the Congolese diaspora in Brussels during a recent state visit to the former colonial power...


The China price

President Félix Tshisekedi would be most damaged by the job losses and the loss of tax revenues from a two-year stoppage although many of his supporters wanted him to take a harder line with the mining companies and their political allies...

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Kasaï peace at risk

Thousands of Kamuina Nsapu combatants declared a ceasefire following the election of Félix Tshisekedi a fellow Luba-speaker from Kasaï as President...


Tshisekedi tries his luck

President Félix Tshisekedi's decision to reappoint Albert Yuma Mulimbi – one of ex-President Joseph Kabila's closest allies – as head of Congo-Kinshasa's largest state-owned mining company has raised eyebrows as well as hackles...


Missing you already

Six heads of state attended including Rwandan President Paul Kagame Angolan President João Lourenço and Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso which was five more than attended the inauguration of Tshisekedi's son Félix Tshisekedi as President in January...

Intriguingly Sassou was the only one among them invited back afterwards to Félix Tshisekedi's private residence in N'Sele outside the capital for a much smaller ceremony for his father's burial on the evening of 1 June...


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