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Congo Kinshasa

Félix Antoine Tshisekedi

Date of Birth: 3 June 1963
Place of Birth: Kinshasa


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New diplomatic chill between US and Kigali over M23

Congo-K President Félix Tshisekedi cut short a visit to Europe following the attacks but not before getting French President Emmanuel Macron whom he met in Paris to again cite Rwanda for the M23 aggression and demand that it end its support for the militia group (Dispatches 21/2/24 Fighting escalates in the Kivus and western officials censure Kagame and AC Vol 65 No 6 How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war)...

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Mobutu-style economic nationalism returns

Angolan foreign minister Tete António announced on 12 March that President Félix Tshisekedi will meet Rwanda's President Paul Kagame 'soon' but did not announce a date...

Also still to happen is for President Félix Tshisekedi to announce his new Prime Minister and for the Prime Minister then to form a government...


How Brussels was caught out by the Kivu war

Three days after an angry meeting between Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame on 16 February in Addis Ababa over the escalating regional conflict the European Union announced a memorandum of understanding with Kigali on the export of critical minerals for the energy transition...


Kigali pushes back against the African Union

He added that alongside the FDLR whose objective is to overthrow Rwanda's government both Congo-K's President Félix Tshisekedi and Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye 'have publicly stated their intention to support regime change in Rwanda'...

It is a measure of the danger posed by the conflict pitting Congolese and allied forces against the M23 militia that President Félix Tshisekedi spent the last week of February criss-crossing Africa and Europe meeting Angola's President João Lourenço on 27 February and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on the following day...


Harsh realities face Tshisekedi after vote

Félix Tshisekedi's second presidential mandate is assured and he has politically vanquished his domestic opposition after the 20 December elections...

THE UN LEAVES AFTER 25 YEARS – BUT THE FIGHT GOES ON Another big win for President Félix Tshisekedi is that he has secured a commitment from the UN for the departure of Monusco from the country after a 25-year deployment...


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Tshisekedi set for second term despite protests against 'sham' elections

Félix Tshisekedi appears almost certain to be confirmed for a second term as President despite opposition protests about the conducting of the polls which saw Tshisekedi obtain 73% of the vote according to the Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante ahead of business mogul-turned-politician Moïse Katumbi with 18% and Martin Fayulu with 5% on a turnout of more than 40% (AC Vol 64 No 20 Oppositionists vie for the presidency)...

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