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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.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67587434?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Newly-appointed Illegal Migration Minister Michael Tomlinson defended Rwandan President Paul Kagame after Democratic Republic of Congo leader Felix Tshisekedi said he will "end up like Adolf Hitler"
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/top-tory-hits-back-after-31652601
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.
Source: https://wtop.com/world/2023/01/popes-africa-trip-spotlights-conflict-and-churchs-future/
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.
Source: https://mg.co.za/africa/2023-12-09-ahead-of-dr-congo-vote-people-in-volatile-east-feel-abandoned/
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.
Source: https://www.eyeradio.org/dr-congo-wont-extend-regional-force-mandate-eac/
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.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/world/africa/congo-election-results.html
Tshisekedi, who has called for U.N. peacekeepers to leave, said Sunday that the United Nations “came to help and protect the Congolese people, but it didn’t work.”