Battling the Rwanda-backed M23 forces in the east Congo-Kinshasa's President Félix Tshisekedi was determined to field a challenger and in February his government nominated Juliana Amato Lumumba a former culture minister and daughter of murdered independence leader Patrice Lumumba...

Bahati had refused to back President Félix Tshisekedi's push to amend the constitution and remove presidential term limits – a stance that has proved fatal to political careers across the capital since the president began clearing the field...

Félix Tshisekedi has failed to win over the capital unlike his father Étienne Tshisekedi the historic opponent of Mobutu Sese Seko...

Central Intelligence Agency veterans and Green Berets are buying Congolese assets under a pact with Washington – a logic that also explains why the United States is unlikely to challenge President Félix Tshisekedi's constitutional manoeuvres...

President Félix Tshisekedi has welcomed the US administration's sanctioning of the Rwanda Defence Force and several senior generals and wants the pressure to continue...

The sanctions are based on reporting from UN missions and western surveillance of the RDF's continuing support for the Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23)'s offensive in the Kivu provinces of Congo-Kinshasa running counter to commitments made by President Paul Kagame in Washington when he signed an accord with Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi last December (AC Vol 66 No 25 Trump's peace deal unravels as M23 seizes strategic eastern city)...

President Félix Tshisekedi's government is pressing its diplomatic advantage after the US State Department sanctioned the Rwandan Defence Force (RDF) and four of its senior commanders for their role in the war in eastern Congo-Kinshasa...

On 4 February Vice-President J D Vance and Secretary Rubio welcomed Congo President Félix Tshisekedi to Washington for a meeting to form a preferential trade zone for critical minerals attended by 55 countries following Kinshasa's signing of a strategic partnership agreement with the US in December...

But Kigali will point out and the UN experts bear this out that President Félix Tshisekedi is also violating those accords as Kinshasa's army les Forces armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) has continued to coordinate with the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) after pledging to end cooperation...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi signed the peace agreement alongside US President Donald J Trump...

The plan was to expedite negotiations for the mineral-security accord then Congo-Kinshasa President Félix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame would sign a peace treaty in the White House within a month...