Félix Antoine Tshisekedi

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...

'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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...