Félix Antoine Tshisekedi

Congolese securocrats say the move is blessed by Congo-K's president Félix Tshisekedi who discussed the neutralisation of armed groups in Congo-K at meetings in Kinshasa with presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Angola's João Lourenço on 31 May...

Blocked from entering the country and barred from running in the December elections Katumbi was a major backer-in-exile of Martin Fayulu the clear winner of the polls according to reports in the Financial Times and Africa Confidential which said the Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) altered the result and declared Félix Tshisekedi President (AC Vol 60 No 2 Data leak exposes plot to steal presidential vote)...

The clip was released barely two weeks after President Félix Tshisekedi announced to the Atlantic Council in Washington that he was seeking a strategic partnership with Washington to defeat terrorism in eastern Congo...

Elections to fill the 108 seats of Congo-Kinshasa's senate have delivered Joseph Kabila's political coalition a decisive majority in the upper house and handed him the power to impeach his newly installed successor Félix Tshisekedi if he chooses...

Martin Kabwelulu Labilo Congo-Kinshasa's long-serving Minister of Mines declined to attend this year's Indaba preferring to remain in Kinshasa where there is much political manoeuvring for positions in the government of new President Félix Tshisekedi...

One of them was the sight of young militants of the Félix Tshisekedi's Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social (UDPS) roaming the streets of Kinshasa before the presidential swearing-in – alongside their former foes the police – with both with eyes peeled and fists clenched in case they spotted supporters of Martin Fayulu who was the real victor in the presidential election according to both the Catholic Church and leaked data from the electoral commission (AC Vol 60 No 2 Data leak exposes plot to steal presidential vote)...

That helps to explain strong support from China and Russia for Kabila's 'negotiated election victory' with Félix Tshisekedi the more pliable of the two opposition frontrunners...

The leaked data starkly contradicts the official results announced on 10 January which purport to show that another opposition candidate Félix Tshisekedi who is thought to have agreed a political fix with outgoing President Joseph Kabila had beaten Fayulu by about 650 000 votes...

Félix Tshisekedi who inherited the mantle of the UDPS when his father Etienne Tshisekedi died in 2017 will make a pliant president says insiders...

Rival opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi and the ruling coalition candidate Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary are trailing with around 20% each we hear (AC Vol 59 No 25 The Twelve Fixes of Christmas)...

A day later Felix Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe pulled out of the pact citing the furious reactions back home of the parties they lead – the Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social  (UDPS) the largest opposition party which was founded in the early 1980s by Tshisekedi's father and the Union pour la nation congolaise (UNC) another major political player (AC Vol 58 No 11 Kabila thriving on chaos)...

They opted for Martin Fayulu an articulate national parliamentarian who can mobilise the Kinshasa street but the next day Félix Tshisekedi son of the late and perennial opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi pulled out quickly followed by former information minister Vital Kamerhe...