Speaker after speaker urged a redoubling of efforts  including African Union Chair and President of Congo-Kinshasa Félix Tshisekedi  World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus  and Africa CDC Director John Nkengasong...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     Talks between Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi and the UPDF have been ongoing for the last two years (AC Vol 60 No 11  A shake-up takes shape)...
 The European Union is also set to provide a training mission for Congolese troops  after EU diplomats confirmed that President Felix Tshisekedi had made a formal request for support...
	 
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            Vol 62 No 10 | 
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	       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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 62 No 9 | 
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	     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)...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi  who gave the ministry of environment a strategic role in his new government  talks about trade-offs...
	 
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            Vol 62 No 5 | 
            - CONGO-KINSHASA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     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)...
	 
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	       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...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	     President Joe Biden had a lengthy discussion with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on 25 February to discuss the UN Security Council and developments in Ethiopia; and Vice-President Kamala Harris called Congo-Kinshasa President and African Union Chair Félix Tshisekedi on the same day  and they also covered Tigray...
	 
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