In homage to that sentiment President Félix Tshisekedi – also president of the AU – announced on 5 June that his country was withdrawing its candidacy to 'reinforce the unity of the continent and to preserve the climate of fraternity in central Africa'...

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...

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...