President Félix Tshisekedi who is fighting for power with ex-President Joseph Kabila strikes an ambiguous attitude towards Gertler a key ally of the former president (AC Vol 62 No 3 Félix tips the scales)...

On 19 April Farmajo visited Kinshasa to try and persuade AU Chair and Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi to support him but he failed...

Ilunga's ouster paved the way for President Félix Tshisekedi to form a government that he would dominate rather than Kabila after two years of an increasingly fraught coalition between the two...

Four of them hold vice-prime minister positions: President Félix Tshisekedi's Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social (UDPS); the Ensemble party of Moïse Katumbi governor of the mining hub of Katanga for eight years; ex-rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba's Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC); and former President Joseph Kabila's Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie (PPRD)...

These concerns are being raised as President Félix Tshisekedi appears to have wrested control of the National Assembly in Kinshasa away from his predecessor Joseph Kabila a close business ally of Gertler's (AC Vol 62 No 3 Félix tips the scales)...

This month Egypt hosted Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi current chair of the AU as part of its efforts to increase contacts with Nile Basin states and IGAD members...

The SDR windfall coupled with decade-high copper prices will strengthen President Félix Tshisekedi's hand as he breaks away from a partnership with predecessor Joseph Kabila though there is no guarantee that ordinary Congolese will benefit from the cash injection...

President Félix Tshisekedi is steadily gaining ground in his bid to assume complete political control in Congo-Kinshasa but he is playing fast and loose with the constitution in the process (AC Vol 61 No 25 President nearer to power)...