Was it the after-effects of a long campaign? An over-tight bullet-proof vest, as some of his aides suggested? Or simply the giddiness of that moment when, for the first time, Félix Tshisekedi realised that he had become president? On 24 January 2019, as he took the oath of office, the new head of state was sweating profusely.
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