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...
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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 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
