Tshisekedi in a sentence

Nearly 40 million Congolese voters go to the polls for the next presidential election on 20 December with President Félix Tshisekedi seeking a second, and final, five-year term in office.

Other high-level foreign ministers due to attend its latest session include Iran's Hossein Amirabdollahian, Germany's Annalena Baerbock and Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi.

Pope Francis, left, arrives with President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo for a welcome ceremony at the "Palais de la Nation" in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Jan.

Presidential candidates in Congo need only a plurality to be elected, and Tshisekedi received just a few percentage points more than Fayulu in the multi-candidate contest, according to official results.

Still, most of the displaced people around Goma who were interviewed said that if they could vote, they would choose Tshisekedi to give him a chance to resolve a chaotic situation that he inherited.

The future of the deployment had been in doubt after DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi criticized the force, but the EAC decided in September to keep the troops on the ground until next month.

The United States played a crucial role after Congo’s last election, in December 2018, when it blessed the controversial power-sharing deal between Mr. Tshisekedi and Mr. Kabila.

While Tshisekedi’s supporters celebrated his win in the streets of the capital, there was calm in other cities with little signs of protest on New Year’s Eve.

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi, who is in China on an official visit, has not publicly commented on the incident.

Mr. Tshisekedi was confirmed as president on Wednesday by the country’s constitutional court and is due to be sworn- in on January 20.

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has agreed to meet with his Democratic Republic of the Congo counterpart Felix Tshisekedi to discuss the ongoing crisis in eastern Congo, the Angolan government has said.

Tshisekedi officially triumphed with 73.47 per cent in the December vote and the vote passed largely peacefully in a country long torn by violence and instability.

But despite a slight fall in media violations in 2019, Tshisekedi has yet to usher in the promised reforms.

He emerged as Tshisekedi's main ally in his quest for power after Kamerhe himself bowed out of the presidential race in December 2018, the first peaceful power transfer in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In June 2020, President Tshisekedi's special advisor in charge of universal health coverage, Roger Kamba, said the high-level deaths would be officially investigated.

In November 2019, Kabila supporters in Lualaba burnt Tshisekedi posters in response to similar destruction of Kabila placards in Kinshasa.

Just before Saturday’s attack, a delegation of former militia leaders from the 1999-2003 conflict had arrived in Ituri on a peace mission at the request of President Felix Tshisekedi.

Mr Vital Kamerhe, the Chief of Staff to Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, has been sentenced to 20 years of forced labour on Saturday for the embezzlement of more than 50 million dollars.

These tensions shoot through the governing coalition that Tshisekedi, whose family hails from Kasai, has formed with his predecessor Joseph Kabila, whose power base was Katanga.

The whodunit rumours about who killed the judge have added a sensational flavour to the more sober political speculation about why Tshisekedi ordered or allowed the arrest of his supposed ally in the first place.